Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community sees its, admitting and hiring blacks would not only link the School with the community but also round out the education offered Ed School students. Contact with people who've lived in the ghetto will make better urban teachers, and better teachers of urban teachers...
...meeting was probably one of the best things to happen to the Ed School since it started turning to urban problems. For the first time, even those senior faculty with no urban concerns realized the Ed School's urban program was in trouble, and as tempers subsided, Sizer and his involved faculty started looking for concrete reforms...
...took three months and the death of Martin Luther King to push them through. They came finally with a faculty vote on April 10. In important ways, the spate of proposals constituted a real break-through in the School's urban posture. Voting to recruit minority group students, the faculty struck down the School's traditional definition of competence, admitting for the first time that race and ghetto experience are important. "The way we've been recruiting minority group students," Sizer said right after the April 10 meeting, "was the wrong...
...RECRUITING decision also expressed a new sense that the School as a whole has a responsibility for finding solutions to urban problems--it has to be committed and now. "We felt," says Sizer, "that we had to do something this spring...
...some extent, the new guidelines accurately reflect an Ed School consensus on the role of the University during an urban crisis. Most reformers agree with the stands on research and neutrality. If the university does not gather knowledge, who will? And an inflexible coalition with one side or the other in the urban morass would limit the School's options for no productive purpose. The School Department is not impressed by Harvard opposition...