Word: area
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terms of activities and performance at Harvard? To compare preppies and pubbies (public school graduates) we can use the exhaustive data of the Harvard Student Body Center. The data is slightly misleading because "elite" public schools such as Newton High are thrown in with the other public schools. Boston area public schools like Newton receive the same preferential treatment as prep schools. This tends to reduce the statistical gap between pubbies and preppies...
...reported to have had a son. Rather than growing up in a Moynihan-model A.D.C. family, Nat Turner knew and loved both of his parents and his grandmother. He was taught to read by his parents. He was regarded with awe and respect by the slaves in the area from the time he was a child...
...Model Cities Program has occupied stage center for the last few months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...
...conservative patrolmen's association in drafting the community-police provision He himself consulted with the group, and then revised the program to eliminate any official participation by the security patrols, which presently operate on an informal basis. The police have been given total law enforcement power in the area...
Atkins also objected to White's ideas on a community role in education. With his approval, the Boston School Committee and the teacher's union examined the education clauses, and objected to the aggressive wording of the crucial passage, which established a committee to study possible "decentralization" of area schools. Atkins changed the sentence to read "parent involvement...