Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pusey's letter, released yesterday, is addressed to the 108 Faculty signers of a statement that appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. The Faculty statement came in response to the cancellation of a controversial Design School course on urban riots, and asked the administration to "take appropriate measures to assure the inviolability of instruction and examination in all duly approved courses...
...National Urban League...
...importance all its own. A short while ago, those ghetto youngsters had been dropouts from New York City schools; now they were about to graduate from the four-month-old "Academy of Transition," sponsored by Time Inc. Almost all of them were planning to move on to the Urban...
...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
Heading Allen's list of priorities are urban ghetto schools, where he feels federal funds can have the most impact. "We have built a middle-class type of education taught by middle-class teachers and run by middle-class administrators for middle-class kids," he argues. "But rarely have we provided the type of teaching that a deprived child really needs." Desegregation and better teacher training are his next big goals. "We are shooting for the millennium," he says, "the time when man respects man." The school, he says, should not be a sheltered island in the community...