Neighborhood School has been awarded a planning grant by the Missouri Committee for the Humanities to develop a series of articles by humanists for The Paper focusing on the role of the humanities in neighborhood schools. At least one half to two-thirds of a child’s day is spent away from home at school, five days a week. How are classes helping or hindering his or her development of values, of self-expression, of a sense of community? Believing that a greater community awareness of the actual content of classes is important, the Neighborhood School is attempting to create a neighborhood forum by sponsoring these articles on the humanities curricula (literature, history, and social studies) of urban primary schools such as exist in our neighborhood.
A proposal planning committee under the direction of Scott Fullerton in consultation with local humanist Dr. Michael Lowenstein has prepared a proposal to fund these articles which would appear in the Spring issues of The Paper.
Originally published in The Paper, January 1979.
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