Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students who regard government and police efforts at riot control as just another example of racial exploitation are, said Coles, fitting the riots into a pre-conceived ideological scheme, without considering the actual plight of Negroes "whose houses are being gutted, whose children are being killed...
...issue focuses on "equal educational opportunity," a phrase defined and popularized by James Coleman's monumental study of discrimination in the nation's public schools. For Coleman, equal educational opportunity means insuring equal achievement among minority and majority children, so the phrase has come to symbolize the problem of remaking the nation's rotting urban schools. Many of the 14 feature articles concentrate on Coleman's survey, but as might be expected, they touch on every major theme in the present crisis in urban education...
...arrivals to the dialogue will find this Review cause for both hope and despair. Judging by the sweeping discussion of research and policy issues, academics have never been closer to understanding why ghetto children don't learn; but the answers aren't ready yet, and won't be for some time...
...still unraveling technical problems in the Report and related research. If the Review is any indication, however, a significant consensus is emerging on the course which reform must follow. Most of the contributors to the Review recognize that equal educational opportunity implies both integration and compensatory education (giving deprived children more and better teachers, books, facilities...
...rudimentary demonstration of their theory, Rouse and Bisque used children's Modeling Dough to mold a mantle around a solid core. The core was attached to a spindle that the scientists used to spin their model earth, accelerating it to simulate the effects of tugging magnetic fields. When the modeling compound dried and formed a thin crust, its larger cracks clearly defined major stress planes that were tangent to the core...