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Well they might be. In 1970, donations to Boys Town totaled $ 17.7 million. It cost considerably less to operate the institution: many staff members are low-paid priests or nuns, building maintenance is minimal, and expansion is currently limited to one new $3,000,000 grade school. As a result, 1970 expenses for Boys Town totaled only $9,000,000-more than one-third of it spent on raising more funds. That means that it cost less than $6,000,000 to operate the institution. On its present basis, Boys Town no longer needs the fund-raising campaigns, since interest...
Soloveitchik tirelessly commutes between New York and Boston, where he supervises the enlightened Yeshiva he founded there, the Maimonides School. It is designed to give students from kindergarten through twelfth grade the best in both secular education and Jewish
...five grade schools and junior highs, existing buildings are divided into traditional and more venturesome learning groups from which parents can choose, and one freewheeling elementary school spin-off meets in a rented mansion. All the groups are integrated, although some schools more than others stress subjects especially relevant to blacks and Chicanos. At the high school level there are still more distinct educational choices...
Among American experiments included in Schools Where Children Learn are the Colorado classroom work of Frances Hawkins, Herbert Kohl's sixth grade class in Harlem, the work of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Street Academies in New York, two schools in Roxbury, and various "career ladder" programs for involving community people, expecially the poor, in social service positions. None of this work has been entirely successful, yet what success has been demonstrated--and the good work is impressive--has resulted largely from the simple desires of parents and teachers to improve the education of children...
...woman, and 48% said that they would seriously question a woman's recommendation to enter a hospital for treatment or tests. The study also turned up some contrasts in attitudes that seem to be linked to educational, ethnic and age factors. Among those with less than an eighth-grade education, 85% preferred a male doctor, compared with 73% among the college-educated. One notable disparity: 54% of the Puerto Rican patients thought women were less competent physicians than men, but only 20% of the blacks agreed. Engleman offers a cultural explanation...