Word: equalize
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...issue focuses on "equal educational opportunity," a phrase defined and popularized by James Coleman's monumental study of discrimination in the nation's public schools. For Coleman, equal educational opportunity means insuring equal achievement among minority and majority children, so the phrase has come to symbolize the problem of remaking the nation's rotting urban schools. Many of the 14 feature articles concentrate on Coleman's survey, but as might be expected, they touch on every major theme in the present crisis in urban education...
...Review isn't easy reading. The list of contributors is impressive, ranging from Coleman himself (tracing the evolution of the concept of equal educational opportunity) to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Thomas F. Pettigrew and Kenneth Clark. But the editors apparently decided to restrict authors as little as possible, outlining three major topics: research issues, policy issues, and problems of implementing policy. The result is that many of the pieces are needlessly repetitive...
...explanation for academic silence could be that experts are still unraveling technical problems in the Report and related research. If the Review is any indication, however, a significant consensus is emerging on the course which reform must follow. Most of the contributors to the Review recognize that equal educational opportunity implies both integration and compensatory education (giving deprived children more and better teachers, books, facilities...
...broad outlines, then, of a policy for refurbishing city schools seem to be taking shape. But definitive answers, if attainable, are still far in the future. The new data from the Coleman Report accounts for much of the new thinking on the question of equal educational opportunity, but as a basis for policy, the Report is riddled with problems. Some of these involve faults in Coleman's survey techniques. The more important involve the size and nature of the survey itself...
...Ford grant, which was given in March, 1965, stipulated that the Nieman program had to equal the $1.2 million by March 31 of this year. Davis Taylor, publisher of the Boston Globe and chairman of the fund drive, said yesterday that his group raised the money just in time, receiving the last donations on March...