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...reformers have tried to go beyond these small initiatives, they have suffered outright defeats. The efforts of Ocean Hill-Brownsville are one example, but even in Philadelphia, where a dynamic school superintendent committed his prestige to expanding community involvement, the school bureaucracy stifled community efforts. In May, 1968, Mark Shedd, the Philadelphia superintendent, was forced to evade community groups' demand for control of a local school by setting up a commission to study their request--after he had promised a year and a half earlier that greater control...
...maximum amount of space for the least money, with roomy galleys, "patios" fore and aft, and large sundecks on top. "It's almost like living in a Florida home," says Chris-Craft Sales Promotion Manager C. G. Houser. It's also great for parties. Brigadier General William Shedd, deputy director of operations of the Pentagon's National Military Command Center, uses his 34-ft. houseboat (appropriately christened the Outhouse) for entertaining afloat on the Potomac, with the number of guests limited only by the number of life preservers aboard...
...Shedd, Seeley, and Mrs. Gaines are Ed School alumni in Boston for a meeting of the Ed school alumni organization
...meeting's focus was a panel discussion between Mark Shedd, Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, David Deeley, New York City's liason man with the Office of Education, Edythe Gaines, the only Negro District Superintendent in New York City, and Robert Anderson, professor of Education, in a panel discussion...
Order of the Day. Philadelphia this year gave the superintendents of its eight school districts some power over curriculum, and is now studying a plan to let them decide how to distribute available school funds within their area. Philadelphia Superintendent Mark Shedd, an advocate of decentralization, sees dangers in local autonomy but argues that "the alternative risk of increased community alienation toward the schools is greater." To complaints that local districts tend to freeze racial boundaries, Shedd points out that "de facto segregated schools for many youngsters are going to be the order of the day for many years...