Word: apprenticeships
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...Utopian "bridges to nowhere" are "meant to serve a society which does not now exist." Still, some harbingers of deschooling have already appeared. By absorbing children's attention, TV has broken the schools' monopoly on teaching. So have industrial training courses, private computer schools and burgeoning apprenticeship programs for high school students. Peer matching is now performed by a company that arranges telephone "conference calls" among people with similar interests (TIME, Jan. 11). A recent Supreme Court decision (Griggs v. Duke Power Co.) banned exclusionary aptitude tests for men who wanted to advance within a company...
...ways in which the system oppresses us: the war, racism, unemployment, male chauvinism, etc. This idea of a worker-student alliance (for which the Progressive Labor Party is originally responsible) was a novel one in the "new left' and, in putting it into practice, for example in fighting racist apprenticeship and "helpers" programs, anti-war issues like the CFIA may have gotten temporarily shifted to the back burner...
...active participants in the struggle (e.g. Painters Helper campaign; support for Welfare Mothers struggling against the Flat Grant and price hikes in ghetto supermarkets when welfare checks come out; support for the Polaroid workers; fighting racist unemployment; support for Charlie McNeil, Kurt Bridgman and others in struggles against racist apprenticeship programs...
...report ends with a brief summary of already-established Harvard programs designed to increase the number of women and minority groups employed at Harvard and on Harvard-related projects. These include Harvard's attempts to increase the number of black subcontractors on Harvard building projects, the controversial Apprenticeship Program which recommends for promotion groups of minority workers in the Department of Buildings and Grounds, and the two University committees-one at the School of Education and one at the College and GSAS-which have explored the status of women at the University...
...being underrepresented among administrators; that HEW accepted the plan while they are still only discussing with Harvard wage and salary differentials based on sex, with no affirmative action yet promised; and that the plan ignored graduate and professional school admissions policy which they said, should be included under the apprenticeship provisions of Executive Order 11246 (as amended), under which the HEW investigation has been conducted...