Word: correctible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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 of children to accept de facto segregated schools as a consequence of a present housing situation and to work for the improvement of slum schools whether Negro or white...
Student Conditioned to Correct Answer...
Many of the statements contain blanks to be filled in, and a good program is designed so that the student will almost inevitably fill the blanks correctly (thus "conditioning" himself to the correct response. The right response is shown to the student immediately after he answers each question (thus "reinforcing" the correct behavior pattern...
...Advocate having received so courteous a review in the CRIMSON, I hope that I shall not seem any the less courteous in writing to correct an error of fact, or perhaps of interpretation, that appeared at the end of Mr. Sokolov's article...
...Globals. Hammarskjold's always correct, publicly nonpartisan stand against the "big shoe-thumping fellow" plainly showed his mettle. And yet, his concept of a strong U.N. executive had detractors, even angry foes, in the West as well as the East. Many Britons were bitter at U.N. "interference" during and after the Suez crisis in 1956. France's President de Gaulle, who sniffs his contempt for the "socalled United Nations," had grudging respect for Hammarskjold the man, but still heaped scorn on that whole vast category of what he calls apatrides-nonnationals whose patriotism is global, not local...