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Four years ago, California's education department declared that elementary and junior high school science texts needed fuller treatment of evolution. Subsequently, the education department detailed pro evolution guidelines for kindergarten through eighth grade to take effect in 1992. But the policy needed approval from the state board of education, which faced heavy lobbying on both sides...
...federal court orders to merge their two public school systems (black and white), the supervisors of Prince Edward County closed them down, and then kept them closed for five years. It was an extension of "massive resistance," the last stand of states' rights. The position was argued in high legalisms. But in deeper truth, Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and other leaders of white Virginia were constructing a cathedral of rhetoric ("interposition . . . sacred duty . . . priceless natural right . . .") to enshrine the remnants of the nation's original sin, slavery...
...Prince Edward County's public schools had the lowest test scores in Virginia. But in the years since then, the public schools have made a gradual and remarkable recovery. Now Prince Edward County High School's student body is 62% black, 38% white. The tuition to attend the white private school (some 630 white students and six black) is now $2,495, and many white families have decided they can find a superior education (free) at the public schools. Even white families from surrounding counties are applying. Test scores for students in the public schools now approach the national average...
Rachel Sweet is a baby-voiced comedian with jet-black hair piled high in a ponytail that makes her look like Pebbles Flintstone. She used to sing in a + new-wave rock band and now studies art history at Columbia University. But starting this week, she will be spending her evenings curled up on a sofa in a Manhattan TV studio, making wisecracks about the single life in New York City. Typical bit: Rachel charts the differences between a guy she dated named David Sims and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Has fancy cigarette holder. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Tried...
WASHINGTON. A barrage of gunfire erupts just outside Woodrow Wilson High School as classes are dismissed for the day. Four students are shot, but all survive. Later, a teen-age boy who is not enrolled at Wilson is convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. The spark for the mayhem: an argument over a seat in the school cafeteria...