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...each of the state's school districts to report to him the racial composition of its schools and found that 21 of the districts did not comply with his guidelines. For those districts he has provided a manual outlining various methods of desegregation, such as school pairings and pupil reassignments. If the districts do not soon come up with satisfactory plans, Bakalis has threatened them with court action. One of these areas is Chicago, where 501 of the city's 656 schools fail to meet the Bakalis standard...
Foxfire started publishing in 1967 and is still going strong. While only half of the graduates of the 240-pupil Rabun Gap school go on to college, all of Foxfire's full-time staffers do-about a dozen each year. "It's a refuge for the kids where adults take them seriously," says "Wig," as his students call him. Many are so excited by the magazine that they even work on weekends, interviewing their neighbors on such subjects as quilting, moonshining and faith healing. Says June Graduate Karen Cox: "I would have dropped out of school...
...Ontario Crippled Children's Centre in Toronto, where Kari is a pupil, is successfully using a system of symbols as a substitute for spoken language. They are patterned after "Blis-symbols," devised some 30 years ago by an Austrian-born chemical engineer named Charles Bliss in the hope that they would be used to promote international understanding. Hardly anyone paid any attention, though, until last year, when Shirley McNaughton, a teacher at the center, came upon an account of them in a library and decided that they might be modified for use by the handicapped...
Greer, 30, a revisionist historian and an administrator at City University of New York, studied school records, surveys and census reports dating from 1890 and concluded: "School performance seems consistently dependent upon the socioeconomic position of a pupil's family." For 70 years, public schools have failed to teach about 40% of their pupils, Greer writes, though poor children today drop out during high school rather than at the elementary level. Thus the schools still have the effect of "screening out the poor and sending them back into the cheap labor market." That market, however, has shrunk dramatically over...
...words, "an Old Blue member of the Yale inner circle." On the contrary, he is a heavy-shouldered, 6-ft. 4-in. black from Trinidad with a towering Afro hairdo and a penchant for blue jeans. He is also an avowed Marxist. Nonetheless, as a pupil of Oxford's distinguished logician AJ. Ayer, he so impressed the Yale philosophy department that he was hired in 1968 to teach courses on revolution and black liberation. And when Yale confronted the threat of a May Day riot two years ago, he worked diligently to help keep the peace...