Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...arrivals to the dialogue will find this Review cause for both hope and despair. Judging by the sweeping discussion of research and policy issues, academics have never been closer to understanding why ghetto children don't learn; but the answers aren't ready yet, and won't be for some time...
...Review isn't easy reading. The list of contributors is impressive, ranging from Coleman himself (tracing the evolution of the concept of equal educational opportunity) to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Thomas F. Pettigrew and Kenneth Clark. But the editors apparently decided to restrict authors as little as possible, outlining three major topics: research issues, policy issues, and problems of implementing policy. The result is that many of the pieces are needlessly repetitive...
...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 reform. The publicity job belongs to academics, and they have avoided...
...Office Clout. Newman's official title at NBC is "critic at large." Over the network's New York City channel, he reviews opera and theater, and commands a respectable following. One recognition of Newman's box-office clout is that Producer David Merrick, who calls him "the undertaker," tried to bar him from the theater and demanded equal time to answer an embalming review. This was a characteristic Merrick publicity ploy, but then Merrick judged his adversary shrewdly...