Word: eds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prominent leaders--zeroed in on Anderson, director of Operation Schoolhouse, competing in the ferocity of their invective. The demands--control of Anderson's Boston-contracted money, immediate hiring of blacks to his all-white task force--took him by surprise, and the intensity of the hostility left the Ed School stunned. Eventually, community leaders walked out, telling the panelist that if Harvard professionals wanted to talk with the community, they'd have to pay for it--an hourly consultation wage...
Finally, the community wants Harvard to admit what Roxbury has always known: race makes a difference. "There are a lot of problems white people have with black people," argues Bernard Bruce, a Roxbury resident and co-director of the Ed School's Project Pathways, one of the exceptional community successes. "One thing Harvard needs is someone who has some color...
...community sees its, admitting and hiring blacks would not only link the School with the community but also round out the education offered Ed School students. Contact with people who've lived in the ghetto will make better urban teachers, and better teachers of urban teachers...
...attitude gap made an explosion inevitable. It came finally during a community meeting now shudderingly referred to around the Ed School as "the January 10 Conference...
...meeting was probably one of the best things to happen to the Ed School since it started turning to urban problems. For the first time, even those senior faculty with no urban concerns realized the Ed School's urban program was in trouble, and as tempers subsided, Sizer and his involved faculty started looking for concrete reforms...