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...Slums and Suburbs--Conant...
Within these limitations, slum teachers score remarkable successes. They do manage to bring some order to otherwise chaotic lives. Says Conant: "The outward manifestations of discipline, order and formal dress are found to a greater degree in the well-run slum schools of a city than in the wealthier sections of the same city." Yet in most big-city slums, more than half of the students drop out of school when they reach the legal age, usually 16. Two-thirds of the dropouts fail to find jobs; even among those who get high school diplomas, roughly half cannot get work...
...improve slum schools, Conant asks...
With Southern schools slowly getting integrated, attention is increasingly turning toward school segregation in large Northern cities, which results from segregated housing. Conant believes the situation cannot be rectified by simply mixing Negro with white children throughout a city. ''The real issue," he says, "is not racial integration but socioeconomic integration. To my mind, the city school superintendent is right who said he was in the education business and should not become involved in attempts to correct the consequences of voluntary segregated housing. It would be far better for those who are agitating for the deliberate mixing...
...Warns Conant, in sum: ''The building up of a mass of unemployed and frustrated Negro youth in congested areas of a city is a social phenomenon that may be compared to the piling up of inflammable material in an empty building in a city block. Potentialities for trouble-indeed possibilities of disaster-are surely there...