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...explanation for academic silence could be that experts are still unraveling technical problems in the Report and related research. If the Review is any indication, however, a significant consensus is emerging on the course which reform must follow. Most of the contributors to the Review recognize that equal educational opportunity implies both integration and compensatory education (giving deprived children more and better teachers, books, facilities...
...Review also reveals a growing consensus on the need for redefining present programs of compensation and integration. Both Cohen and Clark condemn the traditional notion that compensatory education seeks to compensate for the ghetto child's "cultural deprivation." This term imlies none-too-subtly that whatever is black and poor is deprived and whatever is white and middle class is adequate. Apart from its racist connotations, the idea points the finger at the wrong party. The real failure, Review contributors indicate, lies not with the ghetto child but with the school's inability to provide a stimulating "educational environment...
Among other specific suggestions in the final consensus report: - >A strong effort must be made to attract many more members of minority groups into the practice of law. Special help and encouragement is needed to help interested young men and women "overcome barriers imposed by poverty and cultural differences...
There was no consensus among the barbers about future trends in hair styles. Rocco, of the Holyoke Barber Shop, said that they will change soon--either longer or shorter. "No kicks otherwise," he added...
...setting social rules. "Students don't tell faculty members what time to come in," protests Sophomore Stephen Marmon. "What business do they have telling us what time to come in?" But even Marmon is proud that "while Berkeley students used confrontation, Penn students used communication, consensus and compromise...