Word: withing
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Dumas is becoming a symbol of a growing belief among blacks that busing is not the solution to the ferocious problems afflicting inner-city schools. In the past, all-black schools were considered by many blacks and white liberals an anathema to be destroyed by court order. No longer. They...
Principal Peters chafes at the notion of the integrated classroom as the sole avenue to sound education. "Forget the idea that black children can't learn unless they're sitting next to a white child," she argues. "Some values are universal, like self-love, respect, integrity and perseverance." She incorporates...
Dumas is far from perfect: its students still test below the Illinois state average; its physical plant is fraying; services are bad. "They send me inferior hamburger, moldy bread, spoiled milk," fumes Peters. But Dumas, with its emphasis on bootstrap help, is light-years ahead of most black public schools...
A neighbor's daughter showed me a question from a state bar examination she took recently. It called for a 500-word essay having to do with an aspect of interstate commerce.
My concern here is not with the question; I assume it pertained to a conventional legal issue. My concern rather is with the time allotted for the essay: 30 minutes. This absurd limitation for a serious piece of writing is not unusual. Essay-type questions in high school and college...