Word: slum
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...Primary schools would be neighborhood schools and thus segregated to the degree that the surrounding housing is segregated. But they would be better schools in ways that would particularly help culturally deficient slum children. Ungraded classes would let youngsters proceed at their own pace, aided by team teaching "and the imaginative use of space, materials and teaching devices." And primary education should be preceded by two or even three years of nursery and kindergarten to give slum kids the basic tools of learning...
...dreamed up the idea of getting slum residents to dump their garbage on the steps of Brooklyn's Borough Hall. Also involved was Brooklyn Negro Minister Milton A. Galamison, 41, who tried to paralyze the New York City school system with two boycotts early this year...
...happened at the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party in 1903, which began in a flea-ridden hall in Brussels, and after several police arrests moved on to quarters in a London slum, where boys hooted...
Mayer, chairman of a local school board of the New York City Board of Education and author of The Schools, attributed the poor quality of slum schools to "20 years in which people were unwilling to spend money on public education...
Birth Revealed. To Shelagh Delaney, 25, Lancashire bus driver's daughter whose angry young drama A Taste of Honey (written when she was 18) described the coming of age of a Manchester slum waif with the birth of her illegitimate baby: a daughter; in London, on March 4. The name of the father and her own marital status, said the playwright, "are things I am not prepared to discuss at the moment...