Word: oostdyk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensitive to Needs. Harv Oostdyk, director of the program for the Urban League, argues that most slum children are potential college .material-shrewd, realistic decision makers whose choices often determine their own survival. "A kid who grows up on the streets," says Oostdyk, 35, who dropped out of New York University to become a youth worker, "is vastly more sensitive to human need and responses than most middle-class kids." The tragedy is that public schools have been unable to tap that potential...
...Urban League believes that it has just begun to explore the possibilities of the street academies. Eventually, director Oostdyk hopes to have his all-girl academies sponsored by cosmetics firms, or a Chinatown academy supported by, perhaps, Northwest Orient Airlines. He foresees clusters of street academies surrounding each ghetto public high school, gathering up the dropouts and drawing out their full potential. "The people of the ghetto are very susceptible to change," he says. "You can't stop a bad idea on the streets, but you can't stop a good one either. Here...
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