Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments . . . It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal...
...Allan Shivers said that his state will comply, but that it might "take years" to work out the details. From Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley came a quiet, wise reaction. He carefully read the full opinion, then told reporters: "I shall call together . . . representatives of both state and local governments to consider the matter and work toward a plan which will be acceptable to our citizens and in keeping with the edict of the court. Views of leaders of both races will be invited...
...television program, which originated in New York, was entitled "How Shall Congressional Investigating Committees Conduct Themselves Under Law?" Because none of the local television stations carry Murrow's program regularly, Boston was "blacked out" from the original broadcast. Miss Lee Silvian, publicity director of the program, asserted, however, that CBS might rebroadcast the film if there were enough demand...
...chief trouble--the Committee claimed in its staff report last week--is that education has become centralized, and has lost the "natural safeguards" inherent in local control. Central planners, by donating large grants to universities in foreign countries, have given education an "internationalist viewpoint" supposed to be dangerous...
...major universities are planned initially by the faculty of the school concerned, then considered by foundation officials, who commonly are prominent educators in their own right. Frequent policy statements and financial reports usually tell the public more about the operation of the foundations than they know about their local college, whose traditions the Reece Committee expects it to "safeguard...