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...media controls the image of the American Indian," said Anita Collins, chair of the Walker River Band of Paiute Indians, Schurz, Nevada. She mentioned that the media exaggerates alcoholism within Native American communities...

Author: By Jon E. Morgan, | Title: Female Chiefs Discuss Concerns | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Along with quarrels on ideology, perhaps the most intense objections to Bloom's and Hirsch's doctrines come from educators who feel that many of the ideas are out of touch with countrywide classroom realities. Says Ralph Cusick, principal of Chicago's 3,900-pupil, predominantly Hispanic Schurz High School: "What people lose sight of is that we've got to educate everybody -- even the 35 IQs -- and we've got them in school." Last year Schurz also had more than 20 student suicide attempts, with only one counselor to help every 400 youngsters -- not atypical of big-city schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Are Student Heads Full of Emptiness? | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

Only at the range site, where more than 12,000 unexploded bombs have already been safely disposed of, do the tensions seem to fade. There outsiders and locals--whites, blacks, Asians and Indians from the nearby Schurz reservation --work in syncopated drudgery. "They're a pretty nice bunch of guys," says Mike Cook, 31, an out-of-work miner from Tombstone, Ariz., who lives with his wife and four kids in a car to save money. Hoisting a 40-lb. piece of metal, he adds, "You have to be pretty crazy to be a scraphog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scraphogs Invade Hawthorne | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

Ranee Grain, editor in chief of Grain's Chicago Business, a financial weekly, admits that an element of self-interest is behind his firm's decision to teach journalism in Carl Schurz High School. But Grain defines that self-interest broadly: "A weak school system means weak students, and that means weak employees, weak managers-and a weak society." -By Ellie McGrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Business Becomes Big Brother | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...Post has not always been undistinguished. Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, it has been edited by some of the great names in American letters: William Cullen Bryant, E.L. Godkin, Carl Schurz. Schiff, who was born into a prominent Manhattan banking family, bought the money-losing Post in 1939 for her second husband, George Backer. They were later divorced, and she eventually assumed near-dictatorial control of the paper. Aided by a generally liberal editorial line, the Post survived as other New York dailies died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Goodbye Dolly, Hello Rupert | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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