Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Atlanta Transit System switched from corner-to-corner bus lines to fast, limited runs, last year netted $87,197 in profits...
...will get commuters from any one station to any other in less than an hour. What spurred it on was a voter outcry against the blight on the city's beauty caused by superhighways. The state legislature decided that the motorist must help pay for the new system, will nick him for $115 million in traffic tolls to construct a rapid-transit tube under San Francisco...
...York City has the nation's biggest school system-and one of the saddest...
...genius and greatness in some of the youth in New York will go largely undiscovered and undeveloped." The answer, that poor and immigrant New Yorkers have always managed to rise, is no comfort to Veteran Educator Heald. "Their rise was often promoted by a developing, dedicated, sometimes inspirational school system. How will their counterparts of the 19605 fare?" By all evidence, not well. "An educational revolution is beginning to sweep the U.S.," but New York schools can barely "keep a foothold on the status quo." They are run by a politically appointed board of education, gripped in a "fiscal imprisonment...
...earn $300 monthly, a tidy income by Soviet standards. Petrov does not hold with physical punishment ("Rewards work better"). To encourage the emergence of "good qualities," he keeps a box for students to deposit notes (read publicly) describing their classmates' "positive" behavior. His discipline method is a point system in which a whole class is docked for individual transgressions or rewarded for individual triumphs. It is Principal Petrov's pride that his harshest punishment is sending a sinner home in midweek. Only gross insubordination, says he, moves him to invoke...