Poverty, drugs, unemployment, inferior schools and poor health are part of Harlem's daily life.
The young were angry about the circumstances of their lives - joblessness, inferior schools and, they said, police brutality.
Nationally, such families tend to be crowded together in areas long on crime, short on jobs and plagued by inferior schools.
Choice can allow bright children to escape inferior schools.
Similarly, unless all families can bind themselves to save more, those who do so unilaterally risk having to send their children to inferior schools.
The idea of school choice is to permit parents to shop around so that bright, ambitious students can escape inferior schools.
They are compelled to live in slums, shunted off to inferior schools and denied jobs.
Many of its students are products of inferior schools and poorly prepared for college.
They fled the back of the bus, inferior schools, physical brutality.
His mother, a kindergarten teacher in the inferior schools open to black children, pawned her wedding ring to pay the higher tuition.