Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...documenting the achievement gap between minority and majority children (Negroes, though of prime interest, were only one of several minority groups studied). To no one's surprise, he found minority children enter school at a lower achievement level than their majority counterparts, and fall further behind as their schooling progress. Coleman also discovered, again shocking few, that segregation is still the rule in U.S. schools. Sixtyfive per cent of all Negroes, and 80 per cent of all whites, attend schools filled 90 per cent by their own race...
...most important factors are sociological--the social class of each student, and the social class of his fellow students. Crippled by low parent education and lack of stimulus, students of low socio-economic background must fight extra hard to overcome home influences. But progress becomes almost impossible when fellow-students come from the same backgrounds, and suffer the same handicaps. Lacking examples of ambition or achievement, the class gels into a self-retarding mass...
...week saw their arguments vindicated, that Wilson's first act as Prime Minister should have been devaluation. He could justifiably have laid the blame on 13 years of Tory mismanagement and cleared the slate for the fundamental overhaul of the economy needed to make his Socialist dreams of progress for the country at least feasible...
...Since that time he has ruthlessly turned the stagnant company around. Unprofitable heavy-equipment divisions have been sold off, red-inked offices closed, personnel trimmed, including a cut in the headquarters office force from 2,000 to 200. Weinstock set up new accounting procedures to monitor G.E.C.'s progress, and executives who did not measure up to his operating standards were promptly fired or allowed to resign. In five years, G.E.C.'s earnings quadrupled to $25.4 million, after taxes, on sales of $458.5 million; the company became Britain's third largest electric-equipment manufacturer...
...unilateral action." Even workers in the "field" when making a report must learn the lingo that will impress their chiefs back in the glass house: "As you know, the object of the Civic Coordination Programme is to tap the dynamics of social change in terms of local aspirations for progress...