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...secondary matters the President will sometimes accept the consensus even if it goes against his grain. A prime example is the agenda of social issues?particularly banning abortion and compulsory busing and reinstituting prayer in public schools???that are all-important to his New Right followers. Reagan believes in that agenda too, and stressed it as a candidate. But he accepted the judgment of his legislative staff that pushing hard for such measures would complicate the passage of his economic program, which to Reagan has a higher priority. The most the President would do was to give North Carolina Senator...
...that is probably less a measure of scholastic excellence than a reflection of the increase in available places in two-and four-year colleges, and the greater competition for jobs at all levels. Everywhere else, the health of U.S. education in the mid-1970s?particularly that of the high schools???is in deepening trouble...
...would benefit from the infusion of money and technology into education also seem dashed. The number of high achievers on SAT tests (those scoring over 600) has been dropping. A report commissioned by the College Board found that scores of top students ?valedictorians and salutatorians in 145 high schools???showed a similar decline. Graduates who claim that they are illiterate have taken school boards to court in some states. Meanwhile, colleges complain of entering freshmen who read at the sixth-grade level...
Rising violence. The mayhem wreaked by students on their own schools???and teachers?continues to grow. In 1975 the latest year for which totals have been compiled, secondary-school students attacked 63,000 teachers, pulled off 270 000 school burglaries and destroyed school property worth $200 million. The level of violence has continued to climb especially in the much-troubled big-city schools. In New York City, 132 teachers reported physical attacks in the first six weeks of this school year alone...
...campaign without well-defined national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools???were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...