1966 Centralian

Central High School (Pollok, Texas) reprint of 1966 Yearbook

Yearbook for Central Christian High School in Kidron, Wayne County, Ohio.

Conditions of employment in cattle industry; table showing graduated wages scale; study undertaken by R.M. Berndt for Vesteys 1946 outlined; bad accommodation on stations, police control, employment, particularly young children, evasion of wages, bad medical attention, poor food, women exploited, low birth-rate attributed to vitamin deficiency and psychological malaise, misrepresentation of accounts by stations, social relations and decline in tribal practices, no formal education available for children; suggestion for monetary rewards rejected; notes on improved living conditions instituted by armed forces and noticeable appreciation; new government 1951 and conference on Aboriginal policy on assimilation; Court case, 1965; Unions case and employers case; connection between written evidence and labour ability; tables (middle pages) - explanation; verbal evidence, evidence not presented, dietary imbalance and work, diet and health, diseases; present system, with pension moneys collected by management of station, prejudice existing.

The story of a young engineer growing up in England 100 years ago. Details of daily life set within a historical context provide a thought-provoking contrast to life today. After a childhood in an Essex farmhouse, Harry went to school in Dorchester where his father became a partner in an iron foundry. A scholarship to the Central Technical College led to student life in Edwardian London when steam cars, omnibuses and the Twopenny Tube were replacing horse-drawn carriages. Harry gained practical engineering experience at Marshall's of Gainsborough before emigrating to Canada in 1907, aged 24, after first seeing the country on the 1905 Atlantic cable laying expedition.

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere. While big-city districts once were widely seen as superior and attracted families seeking the best educational opportunities for their children, suburban school systems grew rapidly in the post–World War II era as middle-class and more affluent families moved to those communities. As Rury relates, at the same time, economically dislocated African Americans migrated from the South to center-city neighborhoods, testing the capacity of urban institutions. As demographic trends drove this urban-suburban divide, a suburban ethos of localism contributed to the socioeconomic exclusion that became a hallmark of outlying school systems. School districts located wholly or partly within the municipal boundaries of Kansas City, Missouri, make for revealing cases that illuminate our understanding of these national patterns. As Rury demonstrates, struggles to achieve greater educational equity and desegregation in urban centers contributed to so-called white flight and what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan considered to be a crisis of urban education in 1965. Despite the often valiant efforts made to serve inner city children and bolster urban school districts, this exodus, Rury cogently argues, created a new metropolitan educational hierarchy—a mirror image of the urban-centric model that had prevailed before World War II. The stubborn perception that suburban schools are superior, based on test scores and budgets, has persisted into the twenty-first century and instantiates today's metropolitan landscape of social, economic, and educational inequality.

Essays from field research on contemporary social and economic conditions 1965-75; see separate titles for annotations.