Word: magnetize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea seems simple enough: create schools with special programs, and they will attract students from all parts of the city. Such "magnet" schools are becoming increasingly popular not only as a means of providing superior education-and not just to the brightest children-but also as a method of desegregation. Detroit started some magnets four years ago; new ones are planned for Chicago and New York. Last week thousands of Boston parents signed their children up for a variety of innovative courses, ranging from aviation technology to bilingual studies, in 22 magnet schools due to open in September...
...Boston magnets-representing the largest use of the idea to date-are designed to hold fully 18,600 of the city's projected 72,000 school pupils. They were called for in Phase II of Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's desegregation plan, after his court-ordered forced busing touched off street violence and massive school absenteeism last fall. Now Garrity hopes that the magnet schools will offer good enough programs to induce white students from South Boston, for example, to go (by either special bus or public transportation) to a school in Roxbury...
...public schools conforms more or less to the city wide ratio of 51% white, 37% black and 12% other minorities. To help achieve that goal, he has ordered 20 schools to close their doors and has created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized courses that will attract students from other neighborhoods...
...Graduate School of Education will probably announce their Phase 11 desegregation proposal in the near future. Their proposal is likely to involve redistricting of students within six modified desegregation zones, made possible by involuntary busing. The Master's proposal may also include some inducements for voluntary integration, such as magnet schools and program choice. However, voluntary means of desegregation will probably receive lower financial priority. As Dentler, a court-appointed expert remarks. "One ought to stay within predictably available resources." The Harvard masters have no children attending Boston schools, yet community groups were not allowed to testify. In general...
...driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...