Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintain class discipline, unspecified opposition to the decentralization experiment by others. A retired Negro judge appointed to hear the cases found that witnesses could not document incidents or convincingly detail the teachers' failings, recommended that the ten be retained. McCoy insists that they cannot return. Shanker and the central school board insist that they must. The U.F.T. fears that decentralization would break up its power base and leave teachers vulnerable to the whims of unstable local militants. On the other side, there is the justifiable-but unprovable-contention of Negro parents that too many white teachers consider their children...
...anger swirls about a demonstration district in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Set up last year to test the potential problems and benefits of decentralization, the project gave a community-controlled committee the right to evaluate teachers, supervise curriculum and spend funds allocated by the central school board. The hope was that community involvement would lead to closer rapport with teachers, more interested students, a better curriculum and, above all, a halt in the steady decline in student skills...
...Huie has been preoccupied with civil rights. As an eighth-generation Southerner, he feels an obligation toward Negroes, and he wants to be proud of his home region. After many years of traveling, he now lives where he was born, in Hartselle, a town of 8,000 in north central Alabama. "There is a decency about people here," he says. He was happy with the racial progress that was being made in Alabama until George Wallace became Governor. "I suppose the reason I keep involved is that I resent Wallace's effort to turn back the clock...
...Inhibitions. One of those who feel that some undesirable attitudes may be learned on the job and cannot be predicted by testing is Investigator Jay Dixon, who screens applicants for the Seattle Police Department. "Psychologists warn us that prejudice is learned," Dixon says. "Put a man in the central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer...
Thus, from an inconsequential human cipher, Stephens leaped to importance as a central witness in one of the century's most shocking assassinations. He was so important that the state sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that...