Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's departments won't start formal consideration of whether students can count pass-fail courses for concentration until next week--but there are already indications that Faculty opinion on the question is divided and that the departments may reach different decisions...
...week ago the Committee on Educational Policy approved a plan allowing students to take one of their four courses graded "pass-fail" starting next Fall...
...plan would allow students to count pass-fail courses for concentration "with the permission of the department concerned...
...proposal comes before the Faculty at its meeting next Tuesday. If the Faculty approves the CEP's wording, the problem of deciding how widely students will be able to use the pass-fail option will be thrown directly into the department's laps...
Oddly, Coleman did almost no work on the relationship between race and achievement--the effects of racial mixing on minority education. But the logic of the statistics on race and class in the U.S. makes the omission almost irrelevant. As long as schools fail to mix disadvantaged children of any race with more advantaged peers, they cannot provide equal educational opportunity. Since the vast majority of Negroes are poor, and the Negro middle-class all but non-existent, racial segregation equals social segregation. Integration is thus essential to improving Negro education. (Actually, since the Report's publication, other studies, most...