Sentences with phrase «sent urban youth»

In the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, Mao Zedong sent urban youth to the countryside to learn from farmers.
«Many people wanted to «return to the countryside,»» recalls Liu, referring to a Cultural Revolution - era program that sent urban youths to rural China in order to work on farms.

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That is why I joined with the Alliance for Quality Education and the Urban Youth Collaborative to ask you to send this petition to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calling on him to stop funding the Kindergarten to prison pipeline.
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