Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their opinions, truth itself is not altered. Said Johnson: "More than one scholar has learned how deeply frustrating it is to try to bring purist approaches to a highly impure problem. They have learned that criticism is one thing, diplomacy another. They have learned to fear dogmatism in the classroom as well as in the capital...
School-Board Clash. Willis tried to deal with rising racial tensions by inaction and silence. When civil rights groups charged that neighborhood-school lines were drawn to crowd Negro kids into segregated schools while nearby white neighborhoods had schools with unused classrooms, Willis long refused to produce any racial census or classroom statistics. When he ordered mobile classrooms, which his critics dubbed "Willis wagons," into a Negro neighborhood, his school board overruled him, adopted a plan of more liberal student transfers instead. Willis refused to carry it out, suddenly turned in his resignation in October...
...isolation of the Graduate School of Education from the public school systems around it is slowly being forgotten. The group of Ed School researchers which needs help from classroom teachers or school administrators is no longer met so automatically with suspicion in Boston, acrimony in Cambridge or complacency in the suburbs...
...most Ed School researchers haven't decided how much they want to work with classroom teachers, or get involved in their schools. At present, broadly speaking, there are two factions: those who feel a responsibility to work within local school systems, and those who see more value in a separate educational laboratory run by researchers alone...
This role can be filled by the researchers themselves. And though some day they may be able to make good use of an ideal lab, they will profit from a better knowledge of the problems faced day to day in an urban classroom. For them, as well as for the local schools, the Ed School should increase its support of proposals to share research rather than exporting...