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...government, working on the atomic bomb project. In 1953 he resigned as Harvard president to become High Commissioner to the German Republic, and shortly thereafter took over as our first post-war ambassador to that country. During his later years, Conant was to have a profound influence on public-school education, publishing a series of recommendations that have affected the direction it has taken...
...other ways to reduce tensions. Jacksonville experienced only minor disturbances in 1972, when students were first bused. Still, during the next two years, about 10,000 white pupils transferred to private "segregation academies," leaving the public schools 30% black. The city now buses 22,114 of its 111,000 public-school students. According to Associate Superintendent Don Johnson, national test scores indicate that desegregation has resulted in "significant benefit for the black student and no loss of achievement for the white student...
Boston's current troubles are also due to a public-school leadership that has been almost unique in the North for its policies of segregation. The schools are run by a committee whose five members are elected at-large throughout the city; the committee has never had a black member. The school administration has long been an Irish-Catholic bastion, and the entire school system has a well-earned reputation for patronage and petty politics...
...economics courses not only provide basic preparation for many careers, but also can be specifically applied (professors willing) to the nation's fundamental problems. For example, Urban Economics, a fairly new course at many schools, relates basic theory to such current issues as urban renewal, property taxes and public-school funding...
...However great our sympathy for the burdens of those who must pay public-school taxes at the same time that they support other schools because of the constraints of 'conscience and discipline' [it may not] justify an eroding of the limitations of the Establishment Clause [of the First Amendment...