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...studies (Berkeley, Buffalo, Connecticut, Rochester and Sacramento) found significant gains for the bused black groups over their black peers remaining in segregated schools. These gains were reported in black achievement levels, paragraph meaning comprehension, mental ability, school achievement, reading and arithmetic. This leaves five studies. Three of these (Evanston, Boston-Metco and White Plains) must be eliminated from the realm of conclusive evidence due to a lack of control or comparison groups. The remaining two studies (Riverside and Ann Arbor) found no differences between bused and secregated blacks, but Riverside did not control for social class, and Ann Arbor tested...
...Patterson, 27, a Chicago teacher, wanted to learn German before she takes a trip to Europe this summer. Olga Howard, 86, whose family spoke German when she was a child and who lives in Evanston, Ill., was anxious to teach the language. They both called the Learning Exchange, a service that connects people who want to learn something with people who want to teach it. The women have been meeting once a week ever since, and Mrs. Howard has "high hopes that Dee will be understood when she asks where to check her luggage" upon her arrival in Austria...
Some 20,000 other people in the Chicago area have been brought together -free of charge-by the Learning Exchange since it was set up four years ago. Now on the second floor of an Episcopal church in Evanston, the exchange is financed by several small grants from foundations; it has four full-time staff members, four telephones, and an information bank of 30,000 file cards that list the names and numbers of prospective students and teachers interested in more than 2,000 subjects-including such off-beat avocations as fire eating, flying saucers and fox hunting. Says Vice...
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...small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only one major hazard of secondhand shopping. As Jean Halla of Evanston, Ill., puts it: "Don't put your coat down and walk away. Somebody is likely...