He visited an inner-city school and promised that his church would provide each student a toy and a new uniform.

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Seth Dewboys travels west from a mostly white Louisville, Kentucky, neighborhood to an inner-city school with high test scores and a racially mixed student body.

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Therefore, there should be no problem in judging the effectiveness of those teachers in an inner-city school such as Hurlingham and Chelsea, or a suburban school, or indeed a selective school.

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At Shirelands Language College, an inner-city school in Birmingham, England, a portal called the Shirelands Learning Gateway makes it easier for parents to follow their children's progress, and it helps teachers and students keep track of schoolwork and take advantage of individualized instruction.

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To prove he is not just a heartless theorist, he has helped to found a charter school in Miami, catering to inner-city children.

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But the public school system proves that this is untrue: inner-city Catholic schools far outperform public schools, despite much lower budgets.

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The son of a public school teacher, Josh is passionate about science, inner-city education and kids having a deep desire to learn and the right heroes.

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Having worked as an elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles public school system, Liz was profoundly concerned with the lack of arts programming offered to inner-city children.

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