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...same productive year (1917) he published his most famous book, Platero y Yo (Silvery and I), a series of prose-poems telling of his walks in town and country with an amiable, silver-grey donkey. It is one of the great classics of modern Spanish literature, required reading for schoolchildren all over Latin America...
...right," he says. "A lot of people still prefer segregation. But the Supreme Court has ruled, and the people realize that the law has to be lived up to." The best measure of Louisville's success is the fact that 75% of the city's 44,697 schoolchildren were integrated last week (with the remainder segregated only by residential area...
...achievement was overshadowed by noise and fury from a few trouble spots and troublemakers, who shamed and embarrassed their fellow Americans. In Texas 25,000 Negro schoolchildren were integrated without incident. But in the farm town of Mansfield, Negro students slated to enroll in the high school were scared off when whites hung a Negro dummy over the entrance. Governor Allan Shivers piously announced he would not use state police power "to shoot down or intimidate Texas citizens who are making orderly protest against [school desegregation.]" But in Clinton, Tenn., where Governor Frank Clement dispatched National Guardsmen to quell shouting...
...they have equal worth in the sight of God . . ." The program can be accepted or not at the discretion of individual schools. ¶ To the mountain of statistics already amassed on the school population, the U.S. Office of Education added the fact that 11% of the nation's schoolchildren are lefthanded. The information is important, said the office, to architects, designers and manufacturers of school furniture and equipment responsible for the planning, construction and outfitting of new school plants...
...schools face? "The size of classes will no doubt grow, and many schools will fall back upon double sessions. The standards of certification may be undermined, and the quality of instruction will decline. Already, 100,000 'emergency' teachers are in service, and almost half the elementary schoolchildren receive instruction from unsupervised green hands. Less than 70% of elementary schoolteachers are college graduates, and only 60% of the college faculties have earned the Ph.D. . . For some subjects, a total collapse is imminent; 46% of American public high schools offer no foreign language at all; 23% no physics or chemistry...