Affluent and educated parents won't tolerate incompetent teachers; they pressure school administrators to get rid of them. But those teachers aren't fired; they are sent to poor neighborhoods, where parents don't have the social standing or the …

But it taught me about customer service. Did your parents' attitude to money influence your own? My father and mother are both social workers. We grew up sort of middle-working class. It wasn't an affluent upbringing. We always had enough, and we …

A Chinese student like Ting Shi who has to help out in his parents' Laundromat is not going on “service” trips to Nicaragua with the children in de Blasio's affluent Park Slope neighborhood. The LDF's suggested admissions criteria—student portfolios, …

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Second, in addition to tuition and state support, the two-year colleges have the local property tax, which generates big dollars, especially in affluent suburbs such as those in DuPage County. As a result, tuition costs at community colleges are about …

The problem is, he is selling a service that most average income workers in the United States subscribe to, and it's a given among the wealthy. However, Wally lives in a less affluent country, and is targeting a very poor population that gets paid once …

At least four boats have sunk since last month as Indonesians, drawn to the relatively affluent Southeast Asian country for work, sought to go home for Eid al-Fitr, Islam's biggest festival, which starts in Malaysia on Monday. The sinkings killed …

… proposed changes that would explicitly allow “commercially reasonable” deals, that, according to critics, would open the door to a 'two-tier' Internet of fast and slow lanes, with affluent companies and households enjoying premium service and …

Welcome to the affluent world of second-generation immigrant Indian weddings in the U.S. In this melting pot, youngsters choose partners who may be from other parts of India or the globe. Having been independent from the age of 18, when they leave for …