Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate alternative, Calkins suggested that some national group such as the Urban Coalition start a new foundation to act as a "middleman" for donations to universities...
Calkins, speaking on WHRB's Radio Forum, said that he opposed present student demands that Harvard invest some of its $1 billion endowment in urban renewal for areas like Roxbury...
...established or incipient research projects to raise the funds and hire faculty but he refuses. "There have been very few schools," says Sizer, "that have been able to stay with basic inquiry. The one's that don't, become trade schools. We can't keep putting band-aids on urban schools. We've got to have some long-range solutions." To get at the problem of training teachers Sizer has applied for a federal grant to fund two clinical training schools and the faculty to fill them. He hopes to get the money by June, but there is no certainty...
Sizer apparently expects change in urban curriculum to follow the example of grading policy -- a slow and persistent evolution. Whether his policy works will depend to a large degree on the students and faculty who are supposedly pushing for change...
They also hired Urban Planning Aidan independent Cambridge planning firm which numbers several Harvard faculty and students among its members---to give them technical planning asistance and two community legal service groups to provide legal advice...