Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coleman has recently cooled his enthusiasm for busing and believes that it drives too many whites out of the city school systems and leaves blacks with many of the same school problems as before. He cites the eight largest cities in the U.S. that have desegregated schools to some extent in recent years. Based on past history, they should have lost 7% of their white students between 1969 and 1973; instead, they lost...
...long since accepted the notion that segregation is wrong. But on the other hand, precious few whites, North or South, feel any guilt in resisting the disruption of their children's education by busing them to distant schools because those schools are 'too black.' Nor is there much more enthusiasm among black parents for large-scale busing for the primary purpose of racial integration...
...administrators answer questions about the amount of money it has received cryptically, if at all. Last spring, when there were no funds for the program in sight, the same people at Mass Hall or Holyoke Center would talk about Greek studies calmly and with a brave hint of enthusiasm in their voices as they ventured that a professorship in Modern Greek Studies might become a reality in five or six years. Now that a chair has actually been endowed with the necessary $1 million, inquiries about the program seem to grate on official nerves. As usual, you can wrangle some...
...former independent committeeman who was an unsuccessful candidate for city council in the last election, described the teachers as "reasonable people" and said that when he was on the committee some CCA-sponsored members "acted in bad faith" during union negotiations. Though there probably wouldn't be great public enthusiasm for a raise to teachers in these troubled times, the teachers themselves could be a significant force at the polls...
...team has not complained about the "exhausting" two-a-day pre-season practice schedule because of their enthusiasm with Field, the co-captains said. She has tried variations on the traditional 5-3-2-1 formation that are "best-suited for our team," they said...