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...school audience in 1981. "So is the Transit Authority. But none of you is about to say to the people of New York, "Let them ride limousines.'" Hechinger spoke from the era when, whatever education's difficulties in execution, the underlying philosophy required a relentless drive for improvement. The post-World War Two birth of the equal opportunity principle took place in a period of increasing funding and optimism. Practical difficulties which later emerged seemed for years to herald not collapse but maturity, a challenge which would lead to regulation and compromise. Basic competency, like the earlier experiment of affirmative...
...Western Europe, the slump has swelled the ranks of the unemployed to a post-World War II record of 22 million, or almost one out of every ten workers. Even in West Germany, one of the foremost economic powerhouses of the postwar era, joblessness has nearly doubled since 1979, to 6.8%, and the pace of business bankruptcies has increased more than 100%. Says Karl Otto Pöhl, president of the West German Bundesbank: "Resignation and pessimism are more widespread than at any time since...
...important historical point there is that is pointing to the state of mind of Roosevelt and Churchill with respect to nuclear weapons, that this idea was rejected because they already viewed nuclear weapons as a very important and critical and advantageous part of the Anglo-American power in the post-World War II period. I wouldn't argue that thing would have come out differently. I would insist that they may have come out differently if the orientation of the Western statesmen was different...
...Society, a book which Finley co-authored in 1945, became the foundation for Harvard's famous distribution requirements system, and the "Gen Ed" plan for liberal education was immediately imitated by colleges across the country. Finley recalls that one impetus for this project was his fear that the expected post-World War II technology boom would eventually lead to an "evaporation" of interest in the social sciences and humanities. Calling the origin of Gen Ed "another great event," Finley points to one of the plan's earliest successes: Humanities 3, which he taught with Harry Levin '33, Babbit Professor...
Recession pushes unemployment to a post-World War II high...