Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neglect while Democratic bosses boasted of the city's low tax rate. But McCoy died. Though his successors in the city hall were also reluctant to allocate adequate sums for school repair, in 1954 Pawtucket got a school superintendent named Edmund J. Farrell who had an urge for reform. After months of wrangling. Farrell finally talked his school committee into calling in the Harvard University Center for Field Studies to make a survey of Pawtucket's schools...
There are two main lines of defense for the system of grades. One, unquestioned, is that grades stimulate work which would not be done if grades were removed. The reformers contend that a different system could produce superior stimuli and render grades unnecessary. Such arguments vary, depending upon the reform...
...baptized Michael Luther King, son of the Rev. Michael Luther King Sr., then and now pastor of Atlanta's big (4,000 members) Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was six when King Sr. decided to take on, for himself and his son, the full name of the Protestant reformer. Says young King: "Both father and I have fought all our lives for reform, and perhaps we've earned our right to the name...
...survey of school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served some useful function if it impresses upon Massachusetts the need for reform in the virtual autonomy of local school committees...
...twelve acres of brown gravel parking space, on the inside Temple Emanu-el sparkles with stained glass, gold, green and blue mosaic work, and a curtain of shimmering metallic cloth in front of the Ark. The temple, at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Hillcrest Avenue, cost its Reform congregation $2,000,000, stands on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city's bustling northwest...