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...never graduate; the rate hits 50% in some blighted urban areas. As automation invades new fields, as unions make old fields tougher to enter, the unskilled dropouts are almost unemployable. Unwanted, they wallow in anger and sometimes crime. The U.S. can ill afford such "social dynamite," wrote James B. Conant recently in Shims and Suburbs. At Chicago's Dunbar,* Conant was delighted to find just about "the ideal in vocational education...
Westheimer pointed out that Conant Laboratory was the only new construction for Chem Department use since 1930, and that the last new Biology building was erected about 30 years...
...fullest description in years is Martin Mayer's The Schools (Harper; $4.95), a perceptive reporter's first-hand account of everything from team teaching to teacher training, plus live children in live classrooms. The year's most important single issue is summed up in James B. Conant's Slums and Suburbs (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), a sobering report on the growing gap between have and have-not schools, with special emphasis on the "social dynamite" building up in big-city Negro ghettos. Sociologist Patricia C. Sexton's Education and Income (Viking; $6), focusing specifically...
Chicago was the consummation of all of Herold Hunt's ambitions in the administrative end of his profession. In 1953 he accepted President Conant's offer to come to Harvard (at half his Chicago salary). He was eager, he said, "to give back to education the lessons learned in the last thirty years...
Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, agreed that "the provision and Harvard's decision cannot be dismissed as trifles." This is because federal aid to education will soon be necessary, since it is becoming increasingly difficult for states and private groups to finance education alone...