June 13, 1972 (vol. 82, iss. 24) • Page Image 4
…Urban schools decay: Crisis in education By PAUL RUSKIN lAST TUESDAY'S decision by the Detroit Board of Educa- tion to significantly shorten the coming school year dramatically illustrates the desperate crisis now facing most American urban school systems. They have been decaying along with the cities they serve for the past decade. As a result, the poor, mainly black, have been left behind to suffer the con- sequences as their richer neigh- ...…