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genie woahh

2-18-2009 3:05 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8b0c4415-c05d-4a19-8a1f-227e316ece25/A0686128-49C9-46DB-88FD-1A3A3B8951F2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html" href="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html" style="font-size: 11px;">kclibrary.lonestar.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><SPAN>
During the sixties, college campuses became centers of debate and </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><SPAN> more
than ever before.  Great numbers </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><SPAN> 
of young adults, baby boomers, reaching </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><SPAN> and
not yet voting age (minimum voting age did not become
18 until 1971), caused a struggle which played out on many campuses as
the country became more involved  </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><SPAN>
in the Vietnam War.
</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><P>In 1966, James S.
Coleman   commissioned by the
government,
published <A target="_blank" href="http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06389.xml">Equality
of Educational Opportunity</A>, a landmark study that led the way to
forced
integration and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.blackpast.org/?q=primary/boston-bussing-case">bussing</A>
in the 1970's. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html"><P>Problems in secondary schools, discovered in the fifties, were being
addressed in books such as <A target="_blank" href="http://www.medaloffreedom.com/JamesConant.htm">James B. Conant's</A>
<I>The American High School Today</I>.  A return to the teaching
of basic thinking skills was seen to be part of the solution.  In
grade schools across the nation, <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics">phonics</A>
made a come back as reading specialists try to fix what was wrong in
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