Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winship would like, perhaps most of all, to have a hand in political and social reform. TheGlobeis the instrument for political action he has been given to manage, and he has instnictively worked to make the old home-town paper an effective political organ. "Winship will promote anything aimed at the development of the core city," observes Alexander Haviland, the Globe'sexecutive editor...
...GHETTOS are now leading the movement to reform urban education, but the awakening snarl of the core-city has obscured the growing power of a very different type of reformer: the educational academic. Though ghetto residents hold no affection for their cloistered allies, the two communities are linked by the logic of reform. Harried politicians run from encounters with angry ghetto voters to cry for help in the arms of academics. This winter's Harvard Educational Review lets the layman eavesdrop on what those experts are telling each other, and what they are probably telling their worried political friends...
...years ago and this is the first comprehensive treatment of its contribution to educational thought. As Kenneth Clark points out in the Review, publicizing the inadequacies of the present system is a key first step in spurring both whites and blacks to the political action that will bring reform. The publicity job belongs to academics, and they have avoided...
...explanation for academic silence could be that experts are still unraveling technical problems in the Report and related research. If the Review is any indication, however, a significant consensus is emerging on the course which reform must follow. Most of the contributors to the Review recognize that equal educational opportunity implies both integration and compensatory education (giving deprived children more and better teachers, books, facilities...
Some 300 young faculty members and graduate students from 68 U.S. campuses met at the University of Chicago last week with a grandiose goal: to design "a comprehensive program for radical university reform." Composed mainly of leftist activists, old and new, the "New University Conference" was infected with what one of its organizers called "the rampant disease of individualism." Nevertheless, the individualists agreed enough to set up committees to open a national office and try to start radical movements within their home faculties...