Word: segregationism
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The report is sharply critical of the Nixon Administration's boast that 90% of the Southern school systems are now desegregated. Not only are there many segregated schools within such systems, but even in desegregated schools widespread segregation persists in classrooms, buses and extracurricular activities.
In Bronfenbrenner's view, meeting people?especially people of different ages?is all-important to the preservation of the family. Parents now spend their time with other parents, he suggests, children with children, the young with the young and the old with the old. To end this segregation, which is...
The U.S. leads the world in mass education, but much of it is wasted on the young. Pressured to study more and more (22 years from first grade to a Ph.D.), many enjoy it less and less (60% of collegians quit before getting degrees). Not only does youth's...
Such situations arise from Kilpatrick's childhood. "I was brought up a white boy in Oklahoma City in the 1920s and 1930s. I accepted segregation as a way of life. But I've come a long way. Very few of us, I suspect, would like to have our...
MINNESOTA: Twenty five years ago, Hubert H. Humphrey was elected Mayor of Minneapolis. He was a bright new liberal light, leader of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party, and a anti-segregation spokesman at the 1948 Democratic convention. Since then Humphrey has been in Washington and Chicago, and neither sojourn did...