Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When WE talks about training urban teachers, the Faculty can look to its new Center for Research and Development and imminent participation in several federal programs aimed at poverty areas. When WE talks about supervising student teachers, the faculty can look at its new student-teaching centers in Arlington, Brookline and Newton. When We talks about changing the curriculum, the faculty can look to (and beyond) the Scheffler Report...
Besides participating in an urban school plan and a student-teaching plan, WE might consider backing less attractive proposals, such as giving student representatives on some faculty planning committees the right to vote and pressing for faculty involvement in course evaluation. Support for measures like these might result in temporary friction with the faculty; but it could give future educators what they now ironically lack--a voice in determining the basic nature of their own education...
Since Goldwater's defeat, the leaders of the Republica Party have been Congressmen, mostly from rural areas, Brooke explained. These men, he suggested, are not in touch with the modern problems of cities and urban development...
...President's plan has basically a twofold purpose: to bring decent living conditions within the reach of poor families and to begin clearing up urban slums and breaking up ghettos. Under the proposal, a family whose net worth does not exceed $2,000 a year (or $5,000 for the elderly) would be asked to spend one-fourth of its income on rent; the Federal government would make up the difference on the rent charged. Only buildings owned by non-profit or limited dividend organizations (unions or churches, for example) would be subsidized. By thus supplementing its existing public housing...
Ambassador Thai also denied James Reston's report of last summer that the peasantry consider their rulers in Saigon "as merely the successors of the French colonial regime, with the upperclass urban Vietnamese replacing the French." "That's not true any more," he said, while accepting a cigarette "Merci...