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...across the U.S., kids are trooping back to school, but for youngsters at the Robert Russa Moton and Johnson C. Lockett elementary schools in New Orleans, summer ended on July 10. On that date, the 1,450 youngsters returned for the third year of an experimental program that adds 40 extra days to the usual 180-day school year. They were breaking a long-standing American tradition of summer vacations -- dating back to a time when family labor was vital to the late-summer harvest -- that give the U.S. one of the shortest school years in the industrialized world. There...
Increasingly, many of those critics urge that what is good for the kids at Moton and Lockett might be good for the entire U.S.: an extended academic year for everybody. The case for that radical change, says Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is "absolutely compelling." It also seems perfectly in keeping with President George Bush's highly touted goal of making U.S. students first in the world in mathematics and science by the year 2000 -- even though Bush did not mention lengthening the school year in the education plan he unveiled last...
Gretchen C. Lockett, the director, and Pearl Jackson, a program-development specialist in the minority-affairs office, said in a statement that they had acted to call attention to racism on the campus. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week...
...meal-$250-at an auction of G.B.S. letters and memorabilia at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. A total of $41,900 was paid for the 165 lots-including $4,250 for a packet of 19 love letters from young Shaw to his "undeservedly beloved," a nurse named Alice Lockett. "I am," he wrote, "opinionated, vain, weak, ignorant, lazy and so forth." He gave her a sample in his final letter: "Lovemaking grows tedious to me-the emotion has evaporated from it. This is your fault...
...people. He wrote to women with the vanity of a lyrebird in a coopful of Rhode Island Reds. To one, he declared: "No use in looking for human sympathy from me. I am your very good friend, but hard as nails." Busy too. "No," he wrote to Alice Lockett, a non-bluestocking who wanted a date in a week in which he had to do three articles and two lectures. "See you this week! Avaunt, sorceress: not this month -not until next July. Remember my pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this...