Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year, the Peace Corps significantly increased participation of host countries in training plans and programs, rapidly increased the number of training programs in host countries. Ecuadorian staff members have designed and supervised U.S. training of several groups of non-urban Volunteers. A group of teachers trained entirely in Ghana last summer. The increased relevance of in-country training is marked; the reduction of skepticism and distrust by nationals is substantial. This year, perhaps half of all Volunteers will be at least partly trained in-country; in 1969, the great majority. The Peace Corps has now largely gained the insights...
Sizer credits three sources with outlining the dimensions of the crisis in urban education: an emerging and highly critical "Non-Establishment" drawn largely from younger members of the academic community; ghetto disaffection; and new social science data...
...freshly felt impact of the urban school failure has plunged the School of Education into a period of "malaise," "worried questioning," and redirected inquiry, according to the annual report of Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of the School of Education...
...more sophisticated awareness of sex, drugs, and student activism. Far more than any who came before them, they are questioning the old order. They are not only agonized by the War in Vietnam and by the country's refusal to face the triple crisis of poverty, race, and urban life. They believe morality must be injected into the system somewhere, and they think the University is a logical place to start. And so they are frustrated to find Harvard motivated by such expedients as politeness and fear of unfavorable publicity...
Thursday morning, the council will "sit down" with Bridwell, the DPW, and representatives of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington to try to iron out a compromise plan for a Belt study. According to usually reliable sources, Bridwell might then announce a decision to build the Belt if a compromise is not reached...