Education: Counter-Revolution

For months the schools of Little Rock, Ark. have deteriorated under the segregationist pressure of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. By closing the four high schools, integration has been stopped cold, and this school year some 3,086 high school students have been forced to find private or correspondence schools. The remaining 579 students have attended no classes since fall and have had but one school function—playing football.

Last week Little Rock, scene of an unfinished American morality play, produced a second act. At issue was a Faubus "suggestion" that the six-member Little Rock school...

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