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...says a Harvard scientist, who offers an explanation
...PUBLIC SCHOOLS are America's "great social laboratory," as Columbia's Diane Ravitch says in Psychology Today this month, then who has been the mad scientist? Last spring, the media and the Presidential Education Commission ignited the current debate on public schools. Since then, every politician along the rubber-chicken speech circuit has thrown in their own proposals: raise teachers' pay, raise good teachers' pay; spend more federal money, give more local control; return to basics, advance to computers. But while debate has raged nationwide, local communities hold many of the answers to education problems...
Sociology Department Chairman William Alonso says that Starr has avoided the current tendency in the field to follow a strictly statistical approach or to fit research into a rigorous structural approach. "He's more of a general social scientist than fitting a narrow label or discipline," he explains...
...bankers' hours-nor, for that matter, with the act of receiving the paper, which is distributed almost entirely by mail. The Monitor, moreover, is not a commercial venture that must answer to the marketplace but the official voice of the prosperous First Church of Christ, Scientist. The founder, Mary Baker Eddy, declared that Christian Science had a religious duty to publish the paper. All the senior editors are Christian Scientists (Fanning converted in 1965, in the wake of her divorce). So are most of the reporters. Representatives of the church's board watch over the paper, and staff...
Considering the philosophical, pedagogical and financial problems ahead, the supposed computer revolution in schools seems barely under way. "What you have now," says Alan Kay, chief scientist at Atari, "is a bunch of people attempting to teach violin who have had a six-week course in what the violin is and who have never heard violin music before...