Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like nine other states since the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, Alabama enacted a pupil-placement law which by common agreement was designed to thwart integration. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's law-on its face-and provoked hopeful Southern punditry about having finally found a legal way around integration. The punditry was premature...
...Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil for the type of teaching and associates involved," 2) "the possibility of threat of friction or disorder," 3) "the possibility of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community," and 4) "the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with...
...flexible new rules also scrap old regulations that tied architects' hands, kept architectural design from changing to meet new patterns of living. Builders no longer are bound by minimum-lot sizes and rigid house-placement rules, may vary developments as long as light, ventilation and outdoor-activity space are adequate. Once-banned inside kitchens are now allowed, saving the outer or window walls for living and sleeping space. So are new, low-cost bedsitting or kitchen-dining combinations. Also new: architects may choose from a wide variety of products as long as they meet careful performance tests...
However, this figure is misleading, according to Thomas E. Crooks, Director of the Office of Student Placement. "Many more than 13 students will probably wind up working for the government after they finish military service or further study," he said...
Still, one favorite quasi-statistical subject for speculation is what Harvard men do after graduation, and Tests and Placement tried again with last year's Class of 1958. The survey was far more compact and immediate, and many of the questionnaires were returned before the students had left the College, jumping the return up to 94 per cent of the total class...