Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everything Upside-Down. A grim picture emerged of unchecked decline in the quality of big-city schools. Administrators, it was charged, are failing to face the implications of the sociological revolution now under way in U.S. urban life. A primary need, many scholars agreed, is top executive and intellectual talent on big-city boards of education. "Everything is upside-down," summed up former Political Science Professor Hubert Humphrey. "The better schools are in the better areas, and the poor schools are in the poor areas. I'm not asking that those on the top receive less. But a nation...
...conferees saw no surefire means to solve the central problem of urban change: school segregation, which has merely shifted focus from legally enforced separation to de facto segregation. Nearly every metropolitan area reports an increase in segregated schools as a result of housing patterns. For a start, proposed Pittsburgh School Superintendent Sidney Marland Jr., there ought to be a drastic redrawing of school districts in major cities and their suburbs...
Classes may be out for most of the nation's youngsters, but for many parents the plotting and pushing to wedge their children into the right schools is a year-round ordeal. As urban public schools become increasingly flawed by overcrowded classes, poorly prepared teachers and racial imbalance, many young couples are undergoing an ordeal even tougher than the college-admissions scramble; it is the cradle-to-college struggle to get their kids into a big-city private school...
Handlin, the opening speaker, said that the problems of the in urban centers are analagous to those of immigrant groups. They are intensified by the problem of Negro identity, but essential similar to those of white migrants who made the same transition...
...Chile and Brazil, the Protestants include a surprisingly high proportion of educators, businessmen and government officials. Most often, however, Protestants find their converts among urban workers who may have been baptized as Catholics but never have practiced their faith. Last year, for example, Methodist Pastor Gessé Texeira de Carvalho started a mission in Petropolis, a mountaintop city 27 miles from Rio. He now has 45 converts and 90 people taking instruction. "Baroque statues and gilded altars were all right for their grandfathers," says De Carvalho, "but the Brazilian of today must find a better way to reaffirm his faith...