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Gary's education contractor, BRL, has negotiated a guaranteed reading-performance agreement with the city of Philadelphia that will reach 23,000 students and cost as much as $920,000. New York's Educational Development Laboratories (a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill) and Science Research Associates of Chicago (part of IBM) have contracted to raise the reading scores of 15,600 students in San Diego schools. Performance contracts have become so widespread that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has asked the Rand Corporation to study their implications...
PLEASE TOUCH by Jane Howard. 271 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...sale caps a decade of acquisitions for the aggressive Times Mirror Co. (after Time Inc. and McGraw-Hill, the third largest in publishing). In addition to the parent Los Angeles Times, the company has acquired the New American Library, the World Publishing Co., Popular Science and Outdoor Life magazines and, with the Washington Post, is partners in an increasingly profitable news service. Most recently, it offered more than $90 million for the Dallas Times Herald and its three local TV and radio stations...
CHILDREN ARE CIVILIANS TOO by Heinrich Boll. 189 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...simply cannot afford to send their children to the area's three all-white segregation academies, an equally large number are convinced that, given time, white and blacks can coexist. "Those of us who are here have got to learn to live together in this situation," explains Don McGraw, personnel director of the Mississippi Chemical Corp. "It is upon us." Like McGraw, a majority of Yazoo City whites are willing to keep their children in the public schools unless the ratio of blacks to whites gets too high, something that is not likely to happen if the parents themselves...