Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, the so-called solutions are grim and inadequate if not absurd. Many big-city slum schools have installed special lighting, hidden microphones, and burglar-alarm systems. New York City policemen often patrol their beats inside the schools. Yet exporting the custodial techniques of Sing Sing to the schools hardly creates authentic discipline, much less an atmosphere conducive to learning...
Robert G. English, Swansea's 35-year-old public school superintendent, expects eventually to combat the threat of private schools in his district through widespread use of federal funds, particularly for remedial reading and special classes for slow learners. That way, he hopes, newly integrated black children will be able to catch up to the norm without holding up the education of better-prepared whites. "If we can show white parents that this massive integration can work without damaging their children's education," says English, "I think the public school will come out strong." That is a very...
...great is enthusiasm for this series that the three commercial networks have taken unprecedented steps to publicize it. ABC did interviews with Mrs. Cooney and Dr. Palmer for its network news show. CBS is running, free, Sesame Street commercials. And last Saturday NBC presented a half-hour special about the series. Sesame Street deserves the attention...
About nine thousand Marines and soldiers trained to handle riot situations are stationed on the outskirts of Washington as a special precautionary force. In addition, the city's 3800-man police force isworking 12-hour shifts to handle the protest. Many of these are stationed outside embassies and the homes of Capital dignitaries in Washington's residential areas...
...Special services for peace are scheduled today in Memorial Church at noon, in St. Paul's Church at 9 p.m. and in Copley Square after a 5:30 p.m. march by the Boston and Cambridge medical community...