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What happened to Webster is that it was turned into a so-called magnet school. Across the country, schools like this, usually specializing in one subject area, such as math and science, but always emphasizing excellence, proliferated during the 1970s to promote voluntary integration. The idea was that white families would be encouraged to enroll their children at an inner-city school offering a first-class program. And in some cities it was hoped that magnet schools would make court-ordered busing more palatable. "Magnets here are demonstrating that mandatory busing has not been the issue," says San Diego School...
...Tremblay goes off the track when he for-sakes a deeper exploration of his characters for emphasizing Serge as a magnet for his sisters' frustrated sexual desires. Adult life has been unpleasant to them; and they hope to recover the imagined innocence of childhood by becoming their baby brother's keeper. The towering irony is that Serge's own childhood, shaped by his sister's loving ministrations, precluded his ever being a paragon of innocent morality: we find out that his lover. Nicole (played by Maura Barry), is actually his fourth sister...
Early in the morning, students from all over Boston helped with poll-watching. Then, the group of us--Black, white, Hispanic, Asian--got on the bus with big signs. "Vote for King" fliers, and the coveted "Mel King Para Alcada" buttons. First stop: a large magnet high school in Roxbury...
...from laboratory equipment to volunteer instructors. In Chicago, 176 firms have established links with 600 schools; in Los Angeles, the figures are 189 and 225. Seven of Atlanta's largest banks, as well as the local Federal Reserve branch, have collaborated in establishing the city's newest magnet school, Harper High. The banks provide not only money but their own employees for financial courses and internships for interested students. Such programs have a variety of benefits. Memphis Schools
Another approach to higher standards favored by Alvarado and other reformers is the establishment within a district of a so-called magnet school, featuring specialized programs in the sciences, arts or humanities along with a core curriculum. Its purpose: to achieve integration by creating an inner-city school with an irresistible claim to academic excellence. Waller High School in Chicago, once a mere holding pen, was transformed by District Superintendent Margaret Harrigan into Lincoln Park High. It has a school of science with a college-level course in biochemistry, a school of languages that offers French, German, Italian and Spanish...