Word: unequalled
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The crisis of doubt about education as an equalizer began in the '60s after it became obvious that the schools were not performing their historic function for black and Spanish-speaking Americans. At first, most educators believed that all that was needed was a series of reforms. Thus schools...
SO INSTEAD of understanding, women at Harvard and Radcliffe are mocked and receive "good natured" abuse when they attempt to make best of a situation which is stacked against them from the moment of unequal admissions. It is against the rules to exclude people from dining halls, but when the...
I think the real scandal of the present affirmative action guidelines is that the universities of this country have been treated as if they were Southern rural conties. Figures alone have been used to assume discrimination, conscious and unconscious, and universities have been presumed guilty until proven innocent. And innocence...
Jenck's book, Inequality, published in June 1972, concludes that if American schools could be reformed to insure an equal education for every individual, opportunities for wealth and occupations would still be unequal.
Nor are the state's voters noticeably eager to add to their heavy tax bills. They overwhelmingly defeated last November a referendum sponsored by Governor William G. Milliken that would have abolished local property taxes as the basic method of financing public schools. Voters feared the proposal would lead...