Word: parkway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Extension of the MBTA subway line out to Fresh Pond or another point near the Alewife Brook Parkway. Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
...Extension of the MBTA subway lime out to Fresh Pond or another point near Alewife Brook Parkway, Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
...cumbersome system by giving principals greater autonomy. At the same time, he streamlined administrative procedures. In the wake of the 1967 protests, Shedd installed one of the nation's first large-scale black studies programs, including courses in Swahili. Shedd's best-known project was developing the Parkway "school without walls" (TIME, March 23, 1970), which tried to combat student restlessness by holding classes throughout the city, in museums, factories and even in Rizzo's police academy. Morale in the system rose; in a number of schools, so did elementary reading scores, spurred by an intensive remedial...
...founded to carry out the earnest theories of John Dewey and other educational philosophers. Free schools, though, are motivated less by ideology than by despair with public education. Sensing that despair, in fact, some big public school systems are creating their own versions of free schools. Philadelphia's Parkway School, for example, holds classes not in a school building but in museums and business establishments around the city...
...ground, they congeal into patterns of dense urban settlement on the rim of the New York metropolitan area-Newark and East Orange and Orange and Maplewood and Irvington and Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. There are no green belts, no distinct borders: instead, there are parkways, railroads, and political boundaries that may run through the middle of a block. Main Street in East Orange becomes Main Street in Orange, and except for the change in house numbers, one town melts into another. Near the center of East Orange is a giant cross formed by the interchange between the Garden State Parkway...