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...produced a fervent drive to create national symbols that sometimes obscured Jefferson's aspirations. The drive was fueled by waves of immigrants rushing to a virgin continent that offered fabulous opportunities for self-advancement. The gold-rush spirit animated Americanism, the country's unestablished religion. The whole public-school system was aimed at Americanization. Noah Webster's spelling book taught American English to Germans, Poles, Swedes, Italians-and declared that "Europe is grown old in folly, corruption and tyranny." Geography was American, and America was bigger than the universe, the finest, happiest and soon...
...with good reason. Mrs. Hicks collected 28.1% of last week's vote (compared with White's 19.8%), principally from the large blue-collar and lower-middle-class groups who feel bypassed by federal and city welfare programs and who support her unsuccessful attempts to block measures promoting public-school integration...
...Thirty-two percent of Boston's Negro public-school enrollment attend schools which are classified as "racially balanced"-schools with 50% or more white enrollment. The number is growing...
Every day, somewhere in New York City's public-school system, at least one teacher is shoved or struck by recalcitrant students; uncounted others are cursed and threatened with beatings. Last week, in the wake of 13 such student assaults in the past six months, teachers at Bronx Junior High School 98, where 96% of the students are either Negro or Puerto Rican, finally got fed up. Among other things, they asked Principal James Mandel and the school board to provide more protection than the single patrolman already on full-time duty there, give them the right to kick...
...mass resignation was just the latest painful symptom of the sickness that prevails in the nation's largest and least efficient public-school system. To service a student population of more than 1,000,000, and pay a teacher staff of 54,600, New York next year proposes to spend $1.1 billion-more than is spent by 26 states to operate their entire governments. The budget breaks down to an expenditure of about $1,000 a year per student, roughly $400 above the national average; teacher salaries are among the highest of large U.S. cities. Yet the results...