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Download full textFoster-Bey, John A. – 1999
This paper focuses on why metropolitan areas vary in their capacity to translate generally high employment rates into economic opportunity for the disadvantaged. Data come from the Urban Institute's Urban Underclass Database, which includes poverty and employment data for 1980 and 1990 for the 100 largest metropolitan areas down to the Census…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Quality, Employment Opportunities
Meyers, Marcia K.; Teitler, Julien O. – 2001
The New York City Social Indicators Survey examines New York City's social climate, surveying a representative sample of families regarding their perceptions of life in the city and indicators of their quality of life and experiences of hardship. The 1999 survey examined the period between 1997-1999, a time of strong economic performance and…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Environment, Family Life, Housing
Kendall, Lesley; Rutt, Simon; Schagen, Ian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
The Excellence in Cities (EiC) policy was launched in 1999 with the aim of improving the attainment of all pupils in disadvantaged urban areas. Further Phases were launched in 2000 and 2001, by when EiC covered about a third of the secondary schools in England and over 60 per cent of the minority ethnic pupils in England attended schools in EiC…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Academic Achievement, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
