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Like nine other states since the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, Alabama enacted a pupil-placement law which by common agreement was designed to thwart integration. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's law-on its face-and provoked hopeful Southern punditry about having finally found a legal way around integration. The punditry was premature...
...Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil for the type of teaching and associates involved," 2) "the possibility of threat of friction or disorder," 3) "the possibility of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community," and 4) "the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with...
Negro parents have finally overcome shyness, become active in the P.T.A. and risen to offices in several mixed chapters. On their merit, Negro teachers have continued to rise in the school system; there are Negro assistant superintendents in charge of elementary schools, pupil appraisal, adult and vocational education. To Washingtonians and outsiders who remain pessimistic. School Superintendent Hansen says: "Some of us think our greatest contribution to the problem is to go about our business-the education of children in our city-and let the results speak for themselves...
Professor Skinner makes an example of the rudimentary type machine in teaching a third or fourth grade pupil to spell the word manufacture. "The six frames are presented in order, and the pupil moves sliders to expose letters in the open squares...
...need to assert jurisdiction over tribal chieftains, and have made understanding noises about "growing pains." Only a fortnight ago the Mother of Parliaments appropriated $3,500 for a speaker's chair of "dignified design" to be presented to the Ghana Parliament. But was the child proving an apt pupil in democracy? For all his deportations and his juggling of the constitution (TIME, Nov. 17), Nkrumah had never before resorted to so drastic an action as the mass arrests-or trumped up a more questionable excuse. It so happened that the 43 included the entire executive committee of the Accra...