But teaching unions warned the changes would "create another generation of haves and have-nots".
More than anything else, our ranking highlights the massive gap between the haves and have-nots.
That hasn't helped a campaign which promises to narrow the gap between Germany's haves and have-nots.
It divides the world into nuclear weapons haves and have-nots, based solely on the world that existed in 1968.
Boyle says Detroit is in many ways a larger version of New Orleans where the haves and have-nots rarely meet.
Malays as a whole, like other races, have got richer but the gap between the Malay haves and have-nots has widened.
Unlike the NFL, where the mothers milk (national TV money) is shared equally, the NBA is a land of haves and have-nots.
Meanwhile, the turkey market, like so much else in the American economy, seems to be diverging into haves and have-nots.
FORBES: The Bizarre American Obsession With White Turkey Meat
It's true that Jo' burg has a growing black middle class, but it also has a growing divide between its haves and have-nots.
Critics warn that many of these new developments will only serve a tiny elite, exacerbating an already deep divide between the haves and have-nots.
CNN: Africa's 'new cities': Urban future or utopian fantasies?
Make no mistake: What's in play is the emergence of a caste-based traffic system, one of robot-haves and have-nots, of steely-eyed electronic wheelmen vs.
The roots of poverty and economic decay are never addressed, just the endless back and forth between the haves and have-nots, the cops and robbers.
With the gap between haves and have-nots still widening in America, the riots of the 1960s (and of 1992 in Los Angeles) might well be repeated.
But the biggest fissure, and a chief cause of the unrest now roiling the country, is between haves and have-nots rather than religious or ethnic groups.
ECONOMIST: Revolt and repression in Syria: Could the Assad regime fall apart? | The
Like unemployment checks, retraining and other benefits, which vary wildly depending on factors such as geography, the Cobra subsidy has created a lopsided system of haves and have-nots.
Manhattan has been divided into telecom haves and have-nots, with service problems most significant below 39th Street, where flooding knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of residents.
The revenue growth of the past five years falls along a clear path of haves and have-nots, a breakdown based as much on hockey passion as on market size.
The local cable model divides the NBA into haves and have-nots, the result being a three-way fight among players, large market owners and small market owners over how to split up the money.
But there is a danger that the result will be a bureaucratic mess that polarises the haves and have-nots of the euro zone, while further dividing the euro-zone and non-euro-zone members of the European Union.
ECONOMIST: Plans for common supervision could easily turn messy
That's another aspect of Pinot: There's a large gap between the haves and the have-nots.
WSJ: Lettie Teague Says Goodbye to Pinot Noir��for a While | On Wine
Provided the wine holds up, all is well and just in the wine world between the haves and the have-nots.
How to narrow this gulf between the haves and the have-nots is a fiendishly complex issue and one that has no quick or easy solutions.
NFL's even-handedness is hard to value, yet it may prove the league's most important asset should other American sports continue to face battles between the haves and the have-nots.
Rather than illustrating a trend in nonsensical budgeting, these figures may be showing us a more fundamental shift in the economy: a growing divide between the haves and the have-nots.
FORBES: Retail Sales: Success High and Low, Misery in the Middle
Clarissa Williams, head teacher of Tolworth Girls' School in Surbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames, said the government had had excellent intentions towards these children and had spent money to close the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots".
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Parents blamed for misbehaviour
What she has shown, arguably, is that the process of allocating internships is staggeringly inefficient and unfair, reinforcing the advantages of the haves and further marginalising the have-nots.
应用推荐