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...with the McComb Freedom House and the Mississippi Summer Project. (He and Stokely Carmichael taught a seminar on non-violence to college students preparing for the 1964 civil rights crusade.) In 1965 he evaluated and helped improve the medical project of the Mississippi Headstart Program for the OEO. His testimony before the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor influenced critical Congressional funding for the War on Poverty in the late 1960's. The migrant health plan Congress enacted was partly his work. After the 1968 Farmington, Va., mine disaster, Coles acted as intermediary...
Last week, OEO announced the results of the test-a failure. "The overall differences are so slight," said OEO, "that we can conclude performance contracting was no more effective in either reading or math than the traditional classroom methods of instruction." OEO stressed that the findings do not mean that the idea is necessarily wrong, but it added that "an uncritical rush to embrace the concept is unwarranted at this time...
Post-mortems thus far indicate that contractors may indeed have relied too much on computerized teaching machines and programmed reading materials. Cracked David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "Now the OEO should stick to the poverty business and leave education to teachers...
...trouble with that argument is that teachers are not doing much of a job either. According to the OEO survey, all student-achievement averages, both in the special classrooms and in a control group of ordinary classes, failed to reach the national norms...
...OEO has received thousands of applications, many from out of state, including a number from Oklahomans who fled to California during the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. Many Viet Nam veterans applied, along with at least one out-of-work aerospace engineer. Despite the trend toward agribusiness, there is a widespread nostalgia for the land. Another applicant is a $190-a-week television film editor who lives in a suburb of Boston. "It's a chance for me to work at something that would be my very own," he wrote. "I'm sick of pollution, demonstrations...