Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Title I--was intended to funnel Federal funds into the schools of the nation's poverty areas. But now, after three years have passed and about three billion dollars have been distributed to local school districts under the title, its effect on the children it was supposed to help remains uncertain...
...disadvantaged students. "You mean that if a kid's father is making $15,000 a year, but he is divorced and the kid is hung up and behind two years in reading, the district can use behind two years in reading, the district can use Title I money to help this student?" a reporter asked one Long Island school administrator. The administrator replied in the affirmative...
Evaluation of Title I programs has remained much like that--an act of faith in their worth supported by only fragmentary data on the successes or failures of the students they are supposed to help. When the act was passed, some local districts denounced it as a prelude to a Federal takeover of education. Local school districts have now abdicated their zealously guarded sovereignty enough to accept the $3 billion in aid under Title I, but few distircts appear to be going out of their way to help the USOE, or even state education departments, find out exactly how much...
...dash from California's Big Sur. Often he is on the road for weeks on end, racks up 20,000 air miles a month. He drops in on each S.O.M. office, tramps through national parks as a special consultant to the Department of the Interior, returns to California to help plan a Victorian-style convention center for Monterey, meets actual and potential clients everywhere. Such total absorption led to divorce from his first wife, Emily, by whom he had four children. It also precipitated a drinking problem, which Owings conquered in 1964. He is now married to Margaret Wentworth...
Concession to Bigness. The likeliest candidates for this help are children with otherwise normal physiques whose pituitary glands do not produce enough of the hormone. Even for them the supply problem is forbidding. Growth hormone from animals is useless for man unless it is specially processed, and little of this is now produced. Human growth hormone must be extracted, in minute quantities, from the pituitaries of cadavers. Each year the National Pituitary Agency in Baltimore gets about 75,000 of these glands, mostly from pathologists exploring the skull in postmortem examinations. The agency supplies the Hopkins with extracts from...