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With poignant force, the problem hit St. Louis' energetic, earnest Dr. Samuel Shepard Jr. two years ago. A Negro, he had risen from abject poverty in Kansas City. Mo., put himself through the University of Michigan by scullery work. He climbed steadily in the St. Louis public-school system, first as teacher and athletic coach, later as principal. To his white colleagues, it was no surprise. "Sam Shepard is willing to work three times harder than anyone else," one of them says. "He stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done...
...solid is the foundation, in fact, that it has a waiting list of French teachers and a constant flow of applications from Lakewood boys and girls who want more stimulus than they get in school. But the foundation's sincerest compliment has come from Lakewood's public-school system itself. Last fall, after the foundation's success with teaching French to children, the Lakewood public schools tentatively introduced Spanish, French and German to a selected group of seventh-graders. The program is working out so well that next fall these languages will be offered to all seventh...
...September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance laws (TIME, Feb. 9), deployed elements of his 653-man state police force to prevent the rowdies...
Peart's oratory-aimed at preventing ratification of the education committee's report as part of the next Labor platform -ignored facts that, as a minority member of the education committee, he knew as well as his listeners. Scholarship programs ensure public-school education for brilliant sons of the poor; and while the fee-charging schools have always been centers of privilege, snobbery is less important than the fact that they provide Britain's best pre-university education...
...admit the Negroes, and Governor Almond, invoking his massive-resistance laws, will shut down Norfolk's six Negro and white senior and junior high schools. As in Charlottesville, segregationist parents busily devised plans to provide classrooms in private homes and churches. But even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools," led by Unitarian Minister James Brewer and Realtor Irving Truitt, plumped publicly for "a strong and complete public-school system"-and if necessary, gradually integrated. The committee's key point: no city can pretend to attract or hold business, industry or federal...