Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayer, chairman of a local school board of the New York City Board of Education and author of The Schools, attributed the poor quality of slum schools to "20 years in which people were unwilling to spend money on public education...
Although more money is now spent in some Harlem schools than in Scarsdale, Mayer said, current teaching methods simply cannot cope with the problems of these schools...
...Mayer described a pilot project in his own district aimed at developing methods that can increase achievement and motivation among Negro and Puerto Rican children...
...Mayer termed the results of the programs "encouraging," noting that the newly-integrated classes have "nearly the same levels of achievement as previous classes that were all white...
...school population of New York City is Negro or Puerto Rican. The drop-out rate among these groups is over 60 per cent, and of the 110,000 students who graduate annually from the city's public colleges, less than 1500 are Negro or Puerto Rican according to Mayer...