Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither Kennedy nor Humphrey actively campaigned in the District, but the election did give some indication of the kind of support the New York Senator has in urban, heavily-Negro areas. At stake were 23 votes at the Democratic National Convention...
Generally, Roxbury wants more Harvard aid--"a pilot project here, a pilot project there" isn't enough--and it wants aid on different terms. "Do they go and drive the cars," asks Bryant Rollins, director of Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs...
More important, when Ed School workers took the urban plunge, most entered the ghetto as research tourists, handling out questionnaires, looking at school sights, then dissolving into the city's green hub. "People are always asking," says Edna Pezzolesi, head of the Hawthorne House, a Roxbury educational center, "'I wonder how many books Harvard's going to write about this...
...first principle, a definition of competence, postulates that the academic, by virtue of long study, has superior insight into the problems falling within his field, and consequently, deserves a large say in their solution. Well accepted in suburbia, the precept has protected urban school professionals from mayors and and communities for generations...
These guidelines are not posted on Ed School bulletin boards. They are working principles shaped during successful interventions in suburban educational crises, like the one following the first Sputnik in 1957. They might have worked in the cities, except for one thing: as the Ed School poked tentatively at urban problems over the last few years, the ghetto challenged everything it stood for in the past