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...even though its enrollment had by then actually dropped 7%. A kind of black aristocracy bloomed within the central office. Today the city's school system is run with few exceptions by black administrators and staff, many of whom got their first teaching jobs in Baltimore back in the 1960s and '70s and grew into middle age working side by side. They went to the same colleges, joined the same fraternities and sororities, and now attend the same influential churches--ties that produced what Marion Orr, assistant professor of political science at Duke University, calls a powerful "bond of personalism...
...leader of the whole-language movement. "Whole language isn't something that can be summed up in two sentences," he says. "It is a belief system that grounds one's teaching. A pedagogy." Goodman and Frank Smith, a cognitive psychologist, developed the theories behind whole language in the late 1960s. Goodman asked adults and children to read aloud, then studied the ways in which what they said varied from the text. From this work, he concluded that readers rely on context to guess an upcoming word rather than using the word's spelling. If this ability to guess were improved...
Marshall said that her legal career was inspired by living in the U.S. in the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s...
...swift and simple solution, right? Well, no. Outlawing drugs like LSD (in the 1960s) and Ecstasy (in the 1980s) was easy since they have no government-acknowledged medical use and aren't made by licensed firms. But ketamine and other drugs that are actually medicines are different. Senator Joseph Biden discovered how delicate drug politics can be last year when he designed a bill to control ketamine and the so-called date-rape drug Rohypnol more closely. At the time, rapists' use of the latter to sedate victims had sparked an outcry, but the Rohypnol-controlling part of the legislation...
DIED. BERTRAND GOLDBERG, 84, bold architect who redefined Chicago's skyline in the 1960s with the corncob-shaped towers of Marina City; in Chicago...