Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Publishers are facing comparable pressures in Brookline, Mass., Detroit, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and New York City. Major textbook packagers such as Ginn, Silver Burdett, Houghton Mifflin, Harper & Row and Scott, Foresman have all been singled out. And there are indications that some of them have begun thinking about costly reform projects to eliminate stereotyping, just as they have already expunged, in some cases, editorial sins against blacks...
Eaglin's platform outlines three areas in need of reform: "First, economic development of the Kendal Square area for the purpose of increasing the tax base; second, rent control which serves all fairly; and, finally, joining with other cities and towns to stop the pollution of the Charles River...
...grass roots populist-like rhetoric of the 'independent' candidates, it was the 'reform' slate that finally opened up the Cambridge schools to all the people...
...need for a reform majority on the School Committee to retain and support Superintendent Cheatham...
...college diploma. He has taught at the alternative Cambridge Community High School and now edits Centerpeace, New England's only free school periodical. He is unique in drawing the personal endorsement of Jonathan Kozol, author of Death at an Early Age and Free Schools. He aims at radical reform of the school system, particularly in libraries and history departments, and support of alternative schools. He advocates an educational census to determine the number of bilingual and crippled children and illiterate adults of non-English speaking origin to establish programs suited to their needs...