Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are two persistent complaints about the nation's big-city school systems: 1) they are burdened down with top-heavy bureaucracies, and 2) they are unresponsive to the special needs of the neighborhoods they serve. One obvious way to ease both problems is to break up big systems into smaller ones - and, indeed, almost every major U.S. city is now considering some form of decentralization. Not surprisingly, New York, which has both the biggest system and the worst problems, is debating the most drastic remedy: a plan to create up to 60 semiautonomous neighborhood school districts...
...Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests that were the craze at local vaudeville houses. Midway in his junior year at East High School, he dropped out to become a dancer at Cleveland's Bandbox Theater. His partners in subsequent years included a pair of Siamese twins and a neighborhood girl, Mildred Rosenquist. Years later, Hope said that "we would make seven or eight bucks, and I would split it with her." Mildred, now a California housewife, challenges that claim to this day. "Bob told me that we were playing for charity," she says. "He kept the money." The two were engaged...
Champion said last night that he "is concerned about neighborhood participation." During his six years in California, he explained, he had administered a program which set up 13 neighborhood cen- ters throughout the state. In these centers, all kinds of government agencies came together and Champion hopes "to be involved in the same kind of project in Boston...
Third, PBH hopes to create a "community structure through which talent search acivities can become a recognized and valuable part of regular neighborhood life, without the need for specialized, imported volunteer programs...
...most significant departure from the present training system has been advocated by Thomas Roche, the conservative director of Boston's Vocational Schools. Roche bases his plan on the desirability of the conventional neighborhood school for all students, which in Boston means segregation schools. He would like vocational students to attend neighborhood high schools for academic courses, and on alternate weeks and in their senior year study a trade at a metropolitan vocational center. Students in general and college preparatory courses would be allowed to take electives at the center...