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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winship the reformist that initiated a 36-page supplement on poverty programs last month (March 19)> The report included the first comprehensive listings of agencies and programs--public and private--involved in the Boston area's War on Poverty. The supplement is unimaginative--but impressively thorough...
...expert will find even more frustrating the flat, jargonized writing and impenetrable tables of statistics that fill many of the pieces. But these particular difficulties are revealing. The contributors are talking with each other, not to the general public. This is fine to a point, but the Coleman Report was published two 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...
...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...
...broad outlines, then, of a policy for refurbishing city schools seem to be taking shape. But definitive answers, if attainable, are still far in the future. The new data from the Coleman Report accounts for much of the new thinking on the question of equal educational opportunity, but as a basis for policy, the Report is riddled with problems. Some of these involve faults in Coleman's survey techniques. The more important involve the size and nature of the survey itself...
...urban crisis is teaching academics--and those school system professionals who take their heads out of the sand--that no one really knows precisely how or why children learn. The Coleman Report gives hints at best, but years of experimentation are necessary before academics can fashion successful programs of compensatory education and integration. Academics are pointed in the right direction, but they are still blindfolded...