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...really needed, many educators now say, is ways to help teachers cope with the special problems that ghetto children have in learning skills for survival in the nation's middle-class mainstream. The experts feel that a basic shortcoming of the American educational system is that?particularly in the ghetto???it has not faced up to the challenges of coping with students from widely divergent cultural backgrounds. "The schools of this country have traditionally been geared to meeting the needs of middle-class children," says California's Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Agonny of Busing Moves North | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...orange juice, Mumbo Barbecue Sauce, Staff of Life bread, Joe Louis milk and King Solomon spray deodorant, and to give them prominent display. A. & P. also agreed to use black-owned companies for its janitor services, garbage removal, and rodent extermination ("We have a monopoly on rats in the ghetto???and we're going to have a monopoly on killing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson: One Leader Among Many | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...large extent, it will only be because the race issue is kept in perspective by black and white politicians alike. As Ed Brooke has said: "If I did confine myself to Negro problems alone, there would hardly ever be another Negro elected to public office except from a ghetto???and justifiably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate: An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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