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Paradoxically, the federal courts and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have come to insist that race be used as a basis for pupil assignment. They have required the adoption of school assignment plans which are expressly designed to alter the racial composition of schools in a manner sufficient to satisfy some mysterious mathematical level deemed by the courts and the bureaucracy to be sociologically acceptable. It is, indeed, a great and sad irony that the federal courts and the federal bureaucracy would require the use of racial quotas and racial balancing to effectuate a constitutional principle which forbids...
Most Americans have waited and hoped with great patience for the Supreme Court to regain its judicial sanity and to reject lower federal court orders which impose massive busing and racially based pupil assignment plans in order to achieve racial balance. They have waited in vain...
...pupil, Lana quickly learned how to get her fill of her favorite grape juice ("Please machine give juice period") or pieces of banana. But could she also learn to pay heed to the symbols displayed on the screen-in effect, to read...
...voiced -Farb begins to belabor the obvious. Every lover knows that "I love you" is a vocal variable, to be interpreted by the vibrations. In his enthusiasm for "body language"-the things said by facial expressions, gestures, posture -Farb goes far beyond most scholars of the new linguistics. "Pupil performance," he proclaims, "does not depend so much upon a school's audio-visual equipment or new textbooks or enriching trips to museums as it does upon teachers whose body language communicates high expectations...
Then what can be done for the pupil who is not promoted? Many learn little more during their second or even third repeat than during their first year in a grade. Under the new New York City policy, says School Chancellor Irving Anker, pupils who are "left back" will be given "individually prescribed programs" based on their deficiencies and needs. Skeptical New York City teachers applaud his intentions, but many doubt that the money, classroom space and skilled teachers are available to give slow readers the attention they so desperately need...