Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tare opening up. The demand for qualified Negroes all of a sudden exceeds the number you are able to find. And Whitney Young's radical call of just two years ago, asking American business not just to be an equal opportunity employer, but to actively recruit and develop Negro applicants, has come to be widely accepted. The recent research report of The National Industrial Conference Board on Negro Employment, containing 35 company case studies, shows that companies can make progress if they wish to make employment available to Negroes, and many companies at last have the wish to open their...
...Negro workers are represented close to proportionately in the major occupations and professions. Of course, it does not require that Negroes represent exactly the same percentage in every type of profession and every skill; no such uniformity is found among other groups in American society, and differences will inevitably develop because of the uneven geographic distribution of the Negro labor force, and different degrees of interest in various kinds of work. But in terms of broadly defined occupational categories, the sort on which our national employment statistics are organized, a reosonable uniformity is a condition of full equality...
Without attempting to develop specifics, let me touch on just a few areas in the education field. What steps could be taken to substantially increase the percentage of Negrose who complete high school? First, we have learned from experimental studies that school dropouts cannot be prevented in large number in the last year or two before the drop-out. The act of quitting is only the final step of a long drama of failure on the part of the school system to devise a meaningful and valuable curriculum for the student. In the Elementary and Secondary Education...
RECOMMENDATION: Upon completion of the present recommneded building program, but no later than 1975, Pittsburgh should begin to develop plans for the replacement of all twelve of these adapted secondary buildings with up-to-date middle school of sufficient size and appropriate location to carry out the education program and to serve integrated enrollments...
...distinguished faculty who may suffer frustrations by their participation in a coordinated program of teaching. These same faculty willhave complete freedom of action and expression in the elective offerings they provide. Opportunity for scholarship and distinction in teaching will be fostered with the likelihood that more great teachers will develop in this system. Our present block and coordinated teaching is so geared to an accepted urgency to teach everything to every student that it permits little opportunity for development by the faculty of presentations with distinctive personality and philosophy. An occasional lecture here, seminar there, does not engender the kind...