Word: kiernan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Citizens' pamphleteers worked day and night to counter the anti-busing fervor. They wrote, "the issue [racial imbalance] has been clouded by the false emphasis on busing, which has frightened people into forgetting that the real issue is educational progress of all children." They cited the Kiernan report, the document which led to the Imbalance Law, to prove that segregation was educationally harmful. Mrs. Hicks responded by pledging, in effect, to ignore the law. And one week ago, Mrs. Hicks and her four disciples rode a school bus into office...
Last winter the Kiernan report, compiled by a distinguished committee of educators, public officials, and clerics, came out against racial imbalance. The report bluntly stated that de facto segregated schools erode the motivation and self-respect of Negro children, often lead to inferior facilities for Negroes, and encourage prejudice in both races...
Armed with the Kiernan Report and faced with the new state law, Gartland entered the lists this summer as a firm opponent of racial imbalance. He is still reluctant to propose busing as a comprehensive solution. This summer be moved to institute a study of redistricting; the Committee, to Gartland's surprise, approved it for sometime in the future. He also envisions larger elementary schools with up to 800 pupils, built near ghetto boundaries...
...THOMAS KIERNAN Editor Philosophical Library New York City...
Mumma said the teach-in was in response to criticisms that Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, member of the Boston School Committee, recently directed at the Kiernan Report on racial imbalance in Massachusetts schools. Mrs. Hicks objected strongly to bussing proposals in the report...