Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising is that the poll finds little variation in the political opinions of students from different regions of the country. The only variable which seemed to make a difference was whether or not the student being polled came from a large city (over 500,000 inhabitants) or from a rural or suburban area. Those from the cities tended to be more radical...
...Sunday spin in the country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color...
Still another unanswered question is whether the state universities, true to their traditional role as the community's intellectual social utility, can solve the urban problems of the present as well as they did the rural ones of the past. The land-grant colleges created most of the agricultural technology that has made the U.S. the most successful farming nation on earth. Now public universities need to develop new tools, courses, disciplines and methods of research to help the cities. One such special city problem is how to help Negroes and other minority groups fulfill their own rising expectations...
...political arena. And only one completely ignorant of the writings of Chairman Mao-who urges that the village and countryside must be captured and controlled before the city may be attacked-would advocate allowing the Viet Cong to administer legally, in the name of South Viet Nam, the vast rural areas it now controls...
Fair Yardstick. The charge of bias on the S.A.T.s is an old one. Since they were instituted in 1926, educators have variously accused E.T.S. of loading them against girls, rural youths, and most of the country outside the Northeast; the Testing Service, in fact, spends about $500,000 a year on research to improve the exams. Although Negro students do less well on the S.A.T.s, College Board Official W. H. Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact...