Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prides itself on being the nation's most tolerant city. Between 1950 and 1957, New York lost to the suburbs a continental white population numbering about 750,000, gained a Negro and Puerto Rican-immigrant population of nearly 650,000. In sore-spot Manhattan, about 70% of public school children are now Negro and Puerto Rican. More than half (455) of the 704 city schools examined are virtually segregated, and the number is apparently increasing...
...board of education announced key reforms: building new schools in fringe areas to foster integration, tightening lax transfer policies to stop school desertions by white parents, preventing qualified teachers from taking assignments only in "easy" schools. But progress has been so "spotty and slow," the A.J.C. reported, that many new schools have been poorly located, become segregated as soon as they open. Worse, the top teachers, so badly needed in segregated schools, are able to ignore them under a tacit policy that still allows the teachers to work where they please...
...idea began three years ago with a quiet pilot project, financed by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, at Manhattan's Junior High School 43 on the western fringe of Harlem. No school could have been better chosen. Its students (85% Negro and Puerto Rican) 'rere demoralized and uninterested; de-leatist parents saw little future for their children and took scant notice of their schooling...
...basement are two radioisotope storage wells. On the roof is a 6-in. telescope, a transparent plastic cupola for cold weather observations, a battery of meteorological gadgets. In between are perhaps the finest science classrooms in any U.S. high school, fitted with electronics laboratory, photographic darkrooms, areas for private student experiments and a specially designed fume hood built to specifications of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...quiet prairie town of St. Charles, Ill. (pop. 7,700), 33 miles west of Chicago, is known mainly as the site of the state reform school. But last week its new high school science setup was the talk of visiting college teachers, who had never seen anything like it in their own institutions. Nothing so delighted the venturesome St. Charles school board, which wrested $140,000 out of the voters and another $30,000 from the town's late, crusty philanthropist, Colonel E. J. Baker (TIME, Nov. 10), for two of the dandiest classroom labs ever conceived...