All the tough problems of U.S. North ern school integration — the ironies of good intentions and painful misunder standings, the subtleties of trying to ig nore skin color while trying to take it into account, the vain hope of having schools that serve both slums and middle-class neighborhoods— welled up last week in New York City's Harlem.Looking back, there is not much doubt that New York City's Board of Education should have built its new In termediate School 201 somewhere else than right in the middle of darkest East Harlem.
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School Diversity: The Problems with Economic Integration
School integration has vexed policymakers for more than half a century.
Unveiled: First Turkish Woman Poses for German ‘Playboy’
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in the leading German daily Die Welt
Making barren lands bountiful
It is midday and Geoff Lawton is hard at work at Zaytuna Farms in New South Wales, Australia. But the real work, he says, is going on inside the center of the compost.