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...Marla Blakney's fifth-grade classroom is the front line in the nation's largest experiment in privately run public schools. And on a muggy fall morning in Room 308 at Harrity Elementary School, the troops are doing the Macarena. Arms crossing, hips swiveling, 24 Philadelphia schoolchildren are shouting a mantra--"Wisdom! Justice! Courage!..."--that is supposed to create the lively but respectful classroom environment that can elude even good teachers. And to their skeptical teacher's amusement, it seems to be working. "When Edison taught us this, I thought, 'This is so corny. My kids...
...Like Blakney, other teachers as well as students and administrators in Philadelphia's worst-performing elementary and middle schools have been forced to undertake some radical changes this year after a reform panel awarded control of 45 failing schools in the city to seven independent operators. The outside contractors include Edison, based in New York City and the largest of the companies that manage public schools as a business; Victory Schools, a much smaller New York City firm with schools in that city aswell as in Baltimore, Md.; and the Chancellor Beacon Academies of Coconut Grove, Fla., which operates charter...
...well Philadelphia's children fare in these real-life laboratories will ultimately touch public schools in every corner of the U.S., offering examples to emulate or mistakes to avoid. As the experiment begins, TIME is following three individuals with a direct stake in the outcome: fifth-grade teacher Blakney, elementary-school principal Anita Duke andseventh-grade student Shaliah Denmark. All three will experience what happens when private hands buy the books, train the teachers and set the priorities. Each has her own degree of optimism about the promised reforms. TIME will return to them later in the school year...
...same plan is followed on "Weary Blues," with Andrew Blakney's trumpet just before the final chorus the highlight here. "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" closes out the album; as Ory exhibits a lightness that seems incredible after his happy shouting phrases on the other sides, and guitarist Scott contributes a shouting, pushing vocal that shows a fine scorn for the loving spirit of his lyrics...
...first is Chaplain (Capt.) Raymond B. Blakney of Williamstown, Mass., who possesses one of the most varied backgrounds of any instructor at the School. A hospital and transport chaplain for twelve months during the First World War, he was subsequently for eight years professor of mathematical physics at Fukien Christian University, Foochow, China, where he taught integral and differential calculus in Chinese. Upon his return to this country, lie spent six years as minister of the Sanford (Me.) parish of the Congregational Church and nine years as minister at the Williams College Church at Williamstown...