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Learn Abroad. To organize the trip, Jaeger visited 13 countries beforehand, arranged to borrow local classrooms, found English-speaking native families to take in his students (hotels are shunned). He got the school chartered by the New York Board of Regents, hired four top teachers. Among them: Ohio State Botanist Clarence E. Taft and Journalist-Author Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow. Jaeger put in $30,000 of his own money to make up the difference between tuition and cost...
...face an even worse segregation crisis than Little Rock's. Under Georgia law, integration in a single school automatically shuts down the entire local system; nonfederal funds are cut off. Obvious solution is amending the law to allow integration in Atlanta alone. But Georgia's back-country state legislators, who regard Atlanta as a big-city Gomorrah, are in no mood for compromise. Even if rabidly segregationist Governor S. Ernest Vandiver wished to ease matters, he left himself no room last week. Said he: "The people of Georgia overwhelmingly elected me Governor on a platform that, among other...
Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans...
Last week many Atlanta parents were rallying to a new organization called HOPE (Help Our Public Education), whose 30,000 supporters hope to rouse the whole state to the danger. But many more parents are ignoring public schools. This year the city's 21 Roman Catholic schools, all segregated, have suddenly swollen past saturation point with 7,132 students. The seven independent schools, also segregated, are doing their best business in history with 3,500 students; two new lower-grade independent schools are off to such flying starts that each will soon blossom into secondary schools. As crisis approaches...
...manpower aspects of education, however statesmanlike," wrote Faust, "runs into the fundamental question whether the individual exists for society or society for the individual. On this question, the American commitment would seem to be clear, that the individual is not primarily to be regarded as a resource of the state but the state as a means for assuring the full flowering of the individual . . . There are already signs that many parents are disinclined to bring up their children as manpower resources...