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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Today the optimism of the '60s has disappeared, and there is little hope that the problems of the ghettos are about to be tackled anew, let alone solved. The problem is not a resurgence of white racism in America. Instead broad impersonal trends have converged to shift the attention of America away from its ghettos. The energy crisis, the threat of growing Soviet military power and Soviet adventurism abroad, the decline of the U.S. dollar, the fall of U.S. productivity, the nation's vulnerability in a more complex world, as evidenced by events in Iran, the rise...
...Instead of rioting, Jackson said, blacks should "march in large numbers." If they do, "they would also get attention. Massive voting gets attention too." Yet one of the great uncertainties in American race relations is whether blacks will listen any more carefully to the voices of such leaders than whites listen to the angry voices being raised today in the ghettos...
...Israeli soldier had been preceded, after dawn, by the detonation of a time bomb in the Arab marketplace of Hebron, 30 miles south of Ramallah. Seven Palestinians were injured in the explosion. Said one Hebron resident: "God blinded the criminals and made them set it at 6 a.m. instead of 8. Otherwise many more of us would have been killed or injured...
After returning from political oblivion last August, he acquired a strong reputation for vigor and rectitude, appointing experts instead of political cronies to a number of difficult government jobs, launching an effective energy conservation program, implementing a tough anti-terrorist law and pushing an ambitious three-year economic program. Now, once again because of terrorism, he was fighting for his political life...
...concentrate on whetting the interests of students and stirring creativity has been unsoundly used as an excuse to duck detailed schoolwork. Says Columbia's Teachers College Professor Diane Ravitch: "It is really putting things backward to say that if children feel good about themselves, then they will achieve. Instead, if children are learning and achieving, then they feel good about themselves." Ravitch believes U.S. education has suffered much from such pedagogic theories, and especially from the notion, which emerged from the social climate of the 1960s, that the pursuit of competency is "elitist and undemocratic...