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Decentralization is the latest battle cry in public education. The concept has been widely heralded as a cure for the ills of the New York City school system, which-like many big metropolitan systems-is cumbersome and plagued by bureaucracy. In November, an advisory panel headed by Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy proposed that New York be divided into as many as 60 semiautonomous districts with their own parent-dominated policy boards. Such local control, the panel argued, would make the schools more responsible to the needs of the community; it would also keep parents from blaming the city...
Jesse Kornbluth '68 has asked Mailer '43, who will be at Harvard for his 25th reunion, to head a panel discussion on the Vietnam war. Mailer has so far declined, pointing out that he is already on a literary discussion panel...
...President Kennedy selected Magruder, who had retired in 1954, to head a special panel to advise on problems of ethics in Government...
While classes remained canceled, an Ad Hoc Faculty Group, moving helpfully into, the dispute, thought it had found a reasonable solution. It urged uniform punishment for all offenders, under rules to be drawn up by a panel of students, faculty and administrators, and called on the trustees to provide an alternative gymnasium plan. Kirk said he agreed with "the essential spirit" of the proposals, would appoint such a tripartite committee-but did not agree to be bound by its decisions. "He's taking the posture of a neutral party," protested one of the faculty leaders. After the demonstrators also...
Planned as a quiet discussion with a panel of Harvard professors and out-of-town school officials, the forum quickly became a verbal free-for-all. Community representatives--consisting of most of Roxbury's prominent leaders--zeroed in on Anderson, director of Operation Schoolhouse, competing in the ferocity of their invective. The demands--control of Anderson's Boston-contracted money, immediate hiring of blacks to his all-white task force--took him by surprise, and the intensity of the hostility left the Ed School stunned. Eventually, community leaders walked out, telling the panelist that if Harvard professionals wanted to talk...