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Negro educational achievement will not significantly improve until de facto segregation, now actually on the rise, is abolished, Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, said last night...
Speaking in a Design School series on urban problems, Pettigrew said the only remedy to segregation is the creation of "educational parks" -- school complexes outside urban areas serving both city and suburban students...
...educational parks, accommodating 15,000 students, could cost $50 million each, Pettigrew said. Eighty to ninety per cent would have to come from the federal government, he added, but that would be entirely possible considering the sums the government now spends to improve individual schools...
Critics of the parks have claimed that impersonality would be inevitable in such large complexes. But Pettigrew was confident that adequate planning and architecture could conquer that problem. Each unit within a complex must be designed to have individuality, and yet easy access to central facilities, he said...
...Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, and Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of social Psychology, have obtained a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to make the first intensive study of the report...