Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many inner-city schools are as much ghettos of education as their surroundings are ghettos of life. Their teachers go through the motions of teaching. Their pupils seem more interested in vandalism than vocabulary. The parents regard the schools as alien, unfriendly territory. It need not be so. Two inner-city schools in Illinois and Connecticut are proving that it is possible to be not only effective centers of learning but also centers of community activity and hope. Though their methods differ in some ways, one factor is common to both and available to all: getting the parents more involved...
Superior Quality. Martin Luther King School, a handsome building on a grassy lot, has always looked like an inner-city oasis. But eight years ago, its quality of education was abysmal. Staff turnover and student absentee rates were high, and fights were commonplace in the halls. Today, thanks to a research program of self-help supported by the Ford Foundation, the Yale Child Study Center and the National Institute of Mental Health, the quality is not only good but superior. All pupils who have been in the school for two years are up to grade level, there has not been...
...Glaze. Still, both Ford and Carter have an inner circle of permanent scribes who know their candidates all too well. One day in Wisconsin, Ford reached the punch line of his basic speech ("A Government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have"), and the press corps began chanting loudly along with him. Explains NBC Correspondent Bob Jamieson: "The eye-glaze factor begins about the same time each...
...others, who may not be part of what Jerome A. Cohen, associate dean of the Law School, yesterday called the "inner sanctum" have served on small policy advisory task forces during the past months...
There is a fourth, and inner, dimension that has given the U.S. its place in human history: its dreams and ideals...