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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justice in the teachers' claim to power. Those now in charge of the schools, particularly in the big cities, have failed miserably-and teachers cannot be blamed for overcrowded classes, inept texts, pre-Sputnik curriculums. Even the injection of billions of dollars in federal funds, designed specifically to spur innovation, has largely bypassed the classroom teacher. Of some 700 federal grants awarded last year in Michigan, teachers were not consulted in 80% of the cases...
...going to persuade these [white, middleclass] parents to act differently, we will have to give them a powerful incentive." Like most sociologists, Moynihan feels that young Negro boys suffer from overexposure to women-in schools as well as fatherless homes. A firm be liever in military training as a spur to selfdiscipline, he says: "When these Negro G.I.s come back from Viet Nam, I would meet them with a real estate agent, a girl who looks like Diahann Carroll, and a list of jobs. I'd try to get half of them into the grade schools, teaching kids...
...Mobutu succeeds in getting Tshombe, he will then have to find a new scapegoat for the Congo's troubles. Despite his talk about economic reform, he has so far failed to rein in the Congo's debilitating inflation or spur industrial growth. What he has done, however, is to abolish all opposition political parties, disband Parliament, and have a new constitution written to legitimatize his one-man rule. His general explanation for his policies: the Congolese need discipline...
This is not to say that if Vietnam Summer proves to be a rather ineffectual venture, droves of undergraduates will flock to enlist in the "We Won't Go" movement. But they will be faced with what is certain to be a political identity crisis that could serve to spur on the recent radicalization of Harvard
...Perkins increased the university's physical plant from $15 million worth of buildings to $66 million, increased the library's book collection from 155,000 volumes to half a million, quintupled research funds, lured more faculty members with doctorates and found time to spur on a winning football team...