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Schuyler is not an ordinary high school, nor is Becker an ordinary principal. Located in Albany's slum-ridden east side, it is an academy for hard cases-40% are Negro, many of the students come from broken homes, still others are dropouts from other schools. But Ben Becker is a hard case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal...
...city's United Federation of Teachers, which is the nation's strongest local teachers' organization, seems to have no answer either. It refuses to permit school administrators to shift veteran teachers into slum schools against their will. Beginners are thus thrown into some of the toughest teaching tasks in the nation-and are shaken by the experience. "I'll never forget when I was sent into that class, I had to show those children not how to read but how to open a book," says one recent Vassar graduate. Recalling his first day in a slum...
...researchers are not asking the right questions-they are taking the questions that are easier to research." Scholars often frame their grant proposals broadly enough to blanket their real research interests. The sociologist interested in youth gangs, for example, is more likely to get money for a study of slum neighborhoods. Conversely, a biologist who merely wanted to find out whether a high-protein fish flour was unsafe for human consumption landed a grant by emphasizing that he wanted to know if the flour would induce cancer...
Life at the institute revolves around a balanced union of work, study and prayer. Members of the community are involved in trying to improve the Negro slum neighborhood. Backed by a $170,000 federal grant, the institute operates a nursery school for the benefit of both its members and neighborhood families. It has also created a club for neighborhood kids called the Jets and offers legal aid to area residents...
...Commission's decision to fix the year of maximum vulnerability at 19 is well informed. Any earlier and the draft would interfere with education in slow-paced slum schools; later, and men would have to interrupt their junior or senior year in college--the time when most schools ask a student to devote himself to his major field of study...