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...case, is the theory cherished by many educators, who believe that if the schools had enough money, teachers and equipment, they could work the same miracle for black and Spanish-speaking peoples, the "new immigrants" of today. That theory is false, according to a new study by Colin Greer, The Great School Legend (Basic Books; $6.95). "The truth is that the immigrant children dropped out in great numbers-to fall back on the customs and skills their families brought with them to America. It was in spite of, and not because of compulsory public education that some eventually made their...
...Greer, 30, a revisionist historian and an administrator at City University of New York, studied school records, surveys and census reports dating from 1890 and concluded: "School performance seems consistently dependent upon the socioeconomic position of a pupil's family." For 70 years, public schools have failed to teach about 40% of their pupils, Greer writes, though poor children today drop out during high school rather than at the elementary level. Thus the schools still have the effect of "screening out the poor and sending them back into the cheap labor market." That market, however, has shrunk dramatically over...
...Greer (Bantam) How to Survive in Your Native Land...
Paul du Feu, 36, British Cosmo's April centerfold pinup (with airbrushed navel), construction worker and estranged husband of Feminist Author Germaine Greer, was in Manhattan 3 to line up a publisher. He wants to write a book about "liberation from liberation. I like romance, and I want to write about how it is an aphrodisiac," he explained. As for Women's Lib, "It's just another form of puritanism. I think it makes life rather dull...
...FEMALE EUNUCH by Germaine Greer. 349 pages. McGraw-Hill...