TV Reflections on Kilpatrick Target Women and Minorities
The Civil Rights Commission released a forceful report on TV depictions of women and minorities. It criticizes enduring stereotypes and urges FCC regulation to demand realistic, diverse images, noting disparities in job portrayal and hero status by race and sex. The piece ends with a wry suggestion that Archie could fetch his own beer.
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Civil Rights Commission
Commission
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary
Grant
Lou
Edith
Bunker
Archie
Louise Jefferson
George
Yeechh
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
On This Day September 7 in History
On this date in 1940 German bombers began the London Blitz. Also Lafayette bid farewell to President Adams in 1825. Boulder Dam construction started in 1930. A 1967 panel urged a federal student loan program. Birthdays include Elia Kazan and Peter Lawford.
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London
Marquis de Lafayette
John Adams
White House
Boulder Dam
Panel Reports SAT Decline Driven by School and Society
A special 21 member panel finds the SAT score drop since 1963 to be a serious matter but not caused by the test or scoring changes. It links the fall to shifts in college entrants, broader educational opportunity, declines in study habits, television, family dynamics, and national turbulence, urging measured response and renewed emphasis on reading and writing.
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College Board
Willard Wirtz
Harold Howe II
Matina S. Horner
United States
ETS
America
Reading declines spark debate on US schooling
A long analysis notes SAT score drops since 1963 from 478 to 429 in verbal and 502 to 470 in math and attributes part to expanding college intake and social disruption. It urges a broad review of testing and education aims, while stressing resilience and the hope for improvement.
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College Entrance Examination Board
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Decline in English teaching linked to SAT scores
A panel warns that curricular change reduces careful reading and writing, noting half of 11th graders wrote three or fewer papers in six weeks. The study suggests increasing reading to build vocabulary and more writing to sharpen ideas, a message to PTA members.
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National Association of Educational Progress
PTA
Will Rogers on Canada Annexation and Economic Exchange
Will Rogers jokes that Canada, an agricultural country, already overproduces beyond U.S. farmers’ needs. He quips Canada could be a winter skating rink, but poor skating makes it impractical. He suggests instead annexing the United States by trading Wisconsin, joking that America needs to annex itself.
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Canada
Wisconsin
Ohio State House Contact Lineup Prompts Districts
Readable lines list addresses and phone numbers for State House offices in Columbus Athens Proctorville and party district 92 with representative Ronald H. James. Includes zip codes and routing.
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Columbus
Ohio
Eden Place
Athens
Ronald H. James
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