Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlem Report...
...described the schools as "dingy and dilapidated." What are the facts? The Report itself is in error when it says "many of the buildings were erected before 1900." Out of 26 schools in Harlem, only three were built before...
...September 1943 a group of public-spirited laymen joined with the Board of Education of New York City in a two-year project to reduce delinquency in Harlem by providing additional school services and personnel to P.S. 10, J.H.S. 101 and J.H.S. 120 . . . The Report [on that project] stressed the delinquencies of some young people and the inability of the schools to do much about them...
...April 5 issue of TIME, you took . . . only unfavorable, isolated excerpts from this Report ... By making it appear that occasional incidents are characteristic of the school and community life, you gave your readers an entirely false picture of the schools concerned, their pupils and their teachers...
...students with a "common core of knowledge." Whether or not the program will eventually achieve this end is a moot issue at the moment, one that will be resolved only if and when the program becomes compulsory and is characterized by more of the suggestions made in the original Report. In the meantime, the undiscriminating methods of the lecture-books-examination system will continue in force, leaving undergraduates to their own varied, and in many cases, inadequate devices...