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...sunny Monday morning in Levittown, Long Island, teen-agers ran out of the small ranch houses and Cape Cods, darting through carports, and leaving back doors swinging and slamming. Some dashed through the streets, shouting, and others exuberantly made haste on their skateboards. One long-haired boy hustled along to the tune of a blaring radio. Their destination? MacArthur High School, a sprawling, two-story brick building with bright turquoise trim, an All-American high school right down to its official colors: red, white and blue. Bouncing" with excitement, the youngsters converged in the schoolyard and waited anxiously...
...school almost two months after the last of the nation's other classrooms had hummed back to life. Vacation had blended into fall and Indian summer while the students waited for school to start. Leaves turned brown and fell to the ground. For 34 school days, nearly all Levittown's teachers had been on strike over wages, job security, fringe benefits, and their desire to retain special programs in the curriculum. Only that morning they had agreed to end the longest teacher strike...
...bitter fight in Levittown between teacher and taxpayer involved basic problems that are plaguing school districts across the country. It was no coincidence that three conservative members were elected to the seven-member school board on the same day that Howard Jarvis pushed the tax-cutting Proposition 13 through in California...
Polly White Levittown...
...climate at Harvard serves his ends. He wants us to imagine that sullen cadres are manning the ramparts in defense of fairness, for it supports his belief in the broader, more nefarious movement that threatens to turn Harvard into just another indistinguishable subdivision of the real world, a collegiate Levittown. To regain the "character" it has already lost, he believes the University will have to dedicate itself to "intuition over fairness, to judgment over test scores, and it must discriminate before it facilitates...