Word: segregationism
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In that book, he outlined the comprehensive high school, which was to embody the cohesive heterogeneity of American society through its large size, its widely varied student body and its rich academic and vocational program. But Conant now admits that in his first work he purposely turned his back on...
Since then (1957), the former president of Harvard seems to have had a profound change of heart. Besides himself, he bitterly blames the rest of the educational "establishment," notably the National Education Association, for actively silencing the discussion of segregated education. He blames them also for slighting the problems of...
But segregation is by no means the only pressing issue Conant sees. Since 1956, "revolutionary" changes have taken place in American education, he says, from new methods like language laboratories, programmed instruction, and television, to improvements in the content of physics, chemistry and mathematics courses. Significant organizational changes were recommended...
Sir: As a Pennsylvania Democrat in Louisiana, I was not even reassured by the polls. However, on election night I went to sleep content to know that the rest of the country did not want to maintain segregation at the cost of annihilation, and happy to forget the unspoken undertone...
It has been twelve years since Ellison published his only novel; for some seven years now, while teaching at various universities, he has been working on his second. While these essays are a notable stopgap in Ellison's career, a necessary breather perhaps, a reader can only hope that...