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...better part of a lifetime, Daniel Schreiber, current head of New York City's Project 43, has been trying to get underprivileged youngsters into college. Indeed, since the conception of the Project in 1955, he has made this his full time work...
...career may be said to have really begun, however, more than twenty years ago, when he first became principal of Junior High School 43. Schreiber, who had previously taught mathematics in a "special," elite high school, found that his new assignment to a depressed neighborhood demanded a complete change in approach. "I had to stop teaching subject matter and start teaching children. What was most important was to give the kids some motivation for learning, some kind of future worth working...
With these same aims in mind, Schreiber set out, five years ago, to organize Project 43. Begun as a pilot experiment in his own institution, the Project, sometimes called "Operation Higher Horizons," has now expanded to 65 schools and aroused the interest and excitement of college officials throughout the country. Working on the hypothesis that it is a fatalistic attitude which, more than any financial problem, keeps most low income students from continuing their education, the Project seeks, above all, to encourage poor but promising young people to think in terms of going to college...
DONNA MORRISON SCHREIBER...
Higher Horizons. With Dan Schreiber in charge, New York has since launched a "Higher Horizons" program for 32,000 children in 13 junior high and 52 elementary schools. Using Schreiber as consultant, the Ford Foundation recently gave $1,000,000 to start similar programs in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Stirred by Nessfeness, other cities are well launched, notably Washington, where a project at Macfarland Junior High School makes one official gloat that "we may be actually discovering a new dimension in education." Last week, answering queries from Hawaii to Germany, Dan Schreiber said: "We want...