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Until recently, such endorsements were almost unheard of. Most educators held proprietary schools in low esteem because of all too frequent abuses-ads promised high salaries but training was often inadequate. Three years ago, Senator Walter Mondale called such unprincipled schools "the last legalized con game in America." Even today, 18 states have no laws regulating the schools. The proprietary-school industry itself has set up voluntary accrediting boards, but many schools have ignored them because they can fill their classes without accreditation...
SELFESTEEM: "Integration does not seem to affect the self-esteem measures [of minority children] in any clearly consistent or significant...
Based primarily on Armor's evaluation of Boston's voluntary METCO busing program, the study concludes that busing programs have had little effect on academic achievement by blacks, have not increased black students' educational or occupational ambition, have not increased blacks' self esteem and have encouraged separatist ideologies...
...above all, Tuesday Weld has survived. She has lived down her name, her image and her reputation. Says O'Neal: "She's held in very high esteem because of her survival and because she's good. She's like a war hero, and she deserves the Congressional Medal." The only thing that bothers her is-what else?-success. "If I find myself a commercial success, I'll probably go into a state of shock," she says. "If I get out of this underground thing and become commercial, I don't know what...
...Congress for his time-worn Cold War strategies. Suddenly there is a new wave of support for his determination that "the respect of other nations is essential if the U.S. is to lead the way in building a world stability." But this is not a question of international esteem for the United States's intervention in Vietnam: it is a question of whether we at home will permit our government to pursue the slaughter of the Vietnamese people and the destruction of their country...