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...HEW has still not acted on the complaint, hoping that the problem can be solved by voluntary compliance. Houghton Mirflin, the publisher of the readers in question, has already had its consciousness raised enough to cooperate with the Kalamazoo school-system task force, which produced a 154-page handbook as an antidote to its textbooks. The handbook will go to teachers this week; it gives page-by-page, line-by-line suggestions to them for changes when they discuss the stories. For example, it is recommended that after reading a certain story, the teacher will say: "Let's read...
...having trouble agreeing with the federal government on an acceptable non-discriminatory hiring plan. But this week's revelation that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare will neither accept nor reject Harvard's latest proposal indicates that the government itself is having problems. It is unclear if HEW has decided exactly what standards federal contractors must meet, or if the department is merely playing...
...month ago--just two weeks after the University submitted its revised plan to HEW--we were led to believe that the government was close to accepting Harvard's program. This week--a month-and-a-half after the federal review due-date was due--an HEW officer said the government would respond within two weeks to Harvard's latest plan. The letter in response will not give formal approval or rejection to the proposal. Rather, it will request additions to and clarifications of Harvard's five-volume plan...
...also thinks that HEW reviewers are being particularly careful that the hiring plan "follows the spirit and the letter...
Randolph said this week that the latter remain largely responsible for the inadequacy of the Harvard plan. The central administration seems cooperative, he said, but many departments have still failed to supply HEW with documentation of University's "good faith efforts...