Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evans discerned "an impulsive, reckless dissatisfaction with what we are?and a desperate outcry for what we could be once again." He noted that "our persistent centralization of government has accomplished little?except the progressive immobilization of state governments and the destruction of local solutions." One example is the welfare system, which, he said, has succeeded only in destroying pride and incentive. Observed Evans: "The first priority of the U.S. is the resolution of our internal conflict?the recognition that if we cannot unite our own nation, then we cannot preserve the hope of others." But that, he added carefully...
...Breed philosophy as well as anyone: "People today are interested in action, not cliches; problem solving, not promise making; an active concern for the future, not a passive contentment with the past." The hallmark of the politicians who recognize these concerns is an intense conviction that state and local governments must cope with their own problems rather than allow them to go by default to Washington for consideration. The approach is essentially nonideological, even nonpolitical?and thus is appealing to the increasingly youthful, well-educated and independent U.S. electorate. To new voters, says Evans, "the traditional clatter of politics makes...
...radicals of the left as well as the right reflexively condemn the Federal Government for its size, remoteness and unresponsiveness. Between the extremes, there has been a gradual shift toward the view that while a strong central government alone can oversee such programs as space, defense and interstate highways, local problems can be more responsively and responsibly handled by cities or counties or states. Most liberals still feel that a strong Federal Government is essential when it comes to world issues, as well as education, jobs and housing, and doubt that local governments can be trusted to ensure a fair...
Evaluation of Title I programs has remained much like that--an act of faith in their worth supported by only fragmentary data on the successes or failures of the students they are supposed to help. When the act was passed, some local districts denounced it as a prelude to a Federal takeover of education. Local school districts have now abdicated their zealously guarded sovereignty enough to accept the $3 billion in aid under Title I, but few distircts appear to be going out of their way to help the USOE, or even state education departments, find out exactly how much...