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...from a combination of civic complacency, the steady flight of middle-class whites to the suburbs, and the limiting effects of a debt-free, pay-as-you-go school budget policy. By 1964, the city was spending only $450 per student annually on education, compared with $850 in nearby Shaker Heights. As a result, half of Cleveland's students were in schools more than 50 years old. Only two high schools offered vocational training-and less than a third of all graduates were able to find jobs. None of the city's 135 elementary schools even...
...situation exists. Public education in the United States is second to none, and no one is foolish enough to assert that people attend prep schools because of educational equality back home. For, indeed, where do the bulk of such students come? From Brookline and Glen Cove, from Darien and Shaker Heights--the very areas with some of the best public secondary schools in the nation. The graduates of these schools come to Cambridge and New Haven and find themselves in no way less "prepared" than their neighbors who raced off to what Dean Sizer calls "independent" schools...
Sunday, November 20 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS. 10-10:30 a.m.). Starting its 19th year on television, Lamp will light on Folk Singer Pete Seeger at the Shaker Museum in Old Chatham...
Richard A. DeAngelis, of Chevy Chase, Md. (Social Studies); William B. Ginsberg, of Shaker Heights, Ohio (Mathematics); Paul I. Meyer, of University City, Mo. (Government); Walter N. Nichipor, of Fall River (Classics); Stephen J. Suffern, of New York City (Government); Edwin A. Toth, of Cheshire, Conn. (Anthropology); Jose E. Trias, of San Juan, Puerto Rico (Economics); Howard B. Waitzkin, of Akron, Ohio (Social Relations) and Raphael W Zahler, of Little Neck, N.Y. (Mathematics...
...Shaker Heights, each of Mercer School's 28 classrooms has a 16-mm. projector and a screen in a corner, which often pulls down in front of the room's television receiver. The firstfloor film center contains 600 wellcatalogued movies and 1,100 filmstrips (movie film to be projected one frame at a time, like slides...