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...William Hungate to require the state of Missouri to pay college tuition for pupils who voluntarily transfer to increase integration: one semester of free college education at any of Missouri's 30 public campuses in return for each year of participation in the program from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Says Craig Crenshaw, the Justice Department attorney who originally thought up the idea: "It's a tremendous carrot." The head of the St. Louis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Dr. James A. De Clue, agreed. Said he: "We are totally in favor...
Benjamin M. Mattlin '84 vividly remembers a classroom scene from ninth grade, when he was new to the small, private Rudolf Steiner School in New York and "very self-conscious" of his wheelchair and quadriplegic condition. A boy with a hearing aid was visiting the school, which has an almost entirely ablebodied student population. Mattlin remembers. "I looked at him and thought. "He looks pitiful. It's just a minor disability, but he identifies as a handicapped person. You can't really relate to him as a whole human being because he seems so dominated by that disability.'" Mattlin recalls...
...earns 250, up to a ceiling of $5 a month. Initially the absentee rate dropped dramatically, to 2.8%, vs. 6% for a comparable month a year earlier. But by December it was only 6.2%, compared with the previous year's 7%. Says Sergio Nava, 14, the ninth-grade president: "I definitely think they should keep the program, but I guess they should, like, make it up to 500. Some kids are getting just a little tired...
Obsessed with losing his virginity and seething with high spirits, he skips school frequently to shoplift in exotic West Berlin. Agee admires the ducktail haircut, listens to Chuck Berry on American Forces radio, and after flunking eleventh grade, is "tried" by his somber, adultlike classmates of the Free German Youth organization. He makes a final battle to unite with the masses: he finds work as a shipyard laborer. But Agee's fresh starts are doomed by an inner turmoil. His attempts at poetry, painting, music and love end in failure. Near the end of his endurance, his parents...
Maister must make judgments on his 100 students (50% of a student's grade is based on classroom performance), and he has a card on each one, with a photograph of the student on it. His comments range from "very good" to "turkey." His own job, he says, "is to turn people on, to make them want to learn." He is wearing, as he speaks, a blue necktie ornamented in gold thread with the words Waffle House...