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...endorsed five candidates (at an open convention) other than incumbents Gesell and Pierce. (Two of these, Mary Ellen Preusser and Eric L. Davin, are examined in an accompanying article...
...Eric Davin will work for schools which produce ethical children who believe in themselves--children who will make history rather than be content in merely reading history," his campaign literature promises. He will work for education which liberates rather than domesticates. For this to happen, "there must be a change in both method and content of Cambridge education," the literature warns. "changes in method alone--such as the 'open classroom'--are insufficient. 'Innovative' and 'individualized' racism is still racism...
...Eric Davin, the most vocally radical of the seven, differs with his running mates on this question. "Citizen evaluations should be given highest priority," Davin says...
...Eric Davin, 25, comes from a similar working class background--he is the only one of six children to finish high school. He came to Cambridge with only a junior college certificate, became involved in education, and became a candidate for degree at Harvard School of Education without a college diploma. He has taught at the alternative Cambridge Community High School and now edits Centerpeace, New England's only free school periodical. He is unique in drawing the personal endorsement of Jonathan Kozol, author of Death at an Early Age and Free Schools. He aims at radical reform...
...Common Slate two years ago. If not as radical as Eric or Tim, she has a vested interest: a child in the Cambridge public schools. She has expressed support for movements to increase citizen participation in the school system, but has not articulated her position as clearly as Davin or Callahan. Married and not working, she has had more time and money to give herself voter exposure, and may have a strong bid at one of the vacant seats...