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...elementary libraries. Axe elementary science programs. Increase class size 15 per cent. Lay off 210 staff. Move the central office to a new, smaller home. Stop sabbatical leaves for teachers. End the cultural resources program. Halt elementary athletics. Close down the bilingual summer school, the evening program, and adult diploma classes. Stop teaching foreign languages at the elementary schools. And stop all raises of any sort for teachers...
...council votes to override the cap or the State allows Cambridge to exceed the limit, 210 staff members, including 80 teachers and 40 part time aides and tutors, will be let go and sabbatical leaves, elementary athletics, foreign language, science and library programs, evening school and the adult diploma programs will be closed down. Four schools will also be closed, the central office relocated, and negotiated step raises for teachers...
...educational system is one of the nation's proudest possessions. According to 1977 studies, only 21.5% of all students aged 18 to 23 in France go on to higher education (as against 45.5% in the U.S.), but so far, except at Vincennes, France has had little diploma devaluation. The doings at Vincennes stirred conservative ire, and the French government made political capital by announcing that it would move the Vincennes campus this June. Resistance came from students and Vincennes President Merlin, who has struggled long and manfully against the school's drug problems and the politicization...
HARVARD MAKES a promise, casts a spell, and breaks them both. It promises liberal education and conjures an aura of power. The power is conferred upon you by the diploma, which fools the outside world into believing that you are well-educated. When you are inside, of course, you know better. You know you can avoid confronting either a professor or a course. You know that Harvard teaches most people not liberal arts but how to get what you want, or go under. The promise of humanism remains unfulfilled for all but a lucky few, who latch onto the people...
Cambridge will next month begin a year-long celebration of a history that started a decade before the first Harvard man received his diploma...