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Solving algebra problems may not be every teenager's idea of how to spend a month of summer vacation, but for the 90 black youngsters enrolled in Love of Learning, a three-year-old minority-enrichment program at North Carolina's Davidson College, schoolwork is hot stuff. "They get motivated when they come here," says English teacher Regina Brandon. "This is an opportunity for them to get rid of some of the stumbling blocks that hold them back...
...middle -- not at the top -- of their class. Special consideration is given to those who have the potential to be the first in their families to go to college. "I call them diamonds in the rough," says Love of Learning director Brenda Tapia, who is also Davidson's assistant chaplain...
...program is to inspire black adolescents to pursue higher education. So far, the results are encouraging: every one of the 29 students in the inaugural class went on to college, four to top-ranked Davidson and one to the University of Virginia...
What makes the effort work so well is parental commitment and sustained, year-round attention. Once students are selected in the eighth grade, they must pledge to spend the next five Julys at Davidson, in addition to twice- monthly meetings that include English and math workshops and SAT reviews during the regular school year. Parents must promise to participate in quarterly discussions of topics ranging from high school-course selection to college financial aid. "This is a student and parent program," says Tapia. "I make it clear that I won't accept a child whose parent doesn't consent...
Richard writes a preface to each section of the book but otherwise lets his father do the recollecting. A clay-poor Georgia farm boy, Dean Rusk tells with self-effacing charm how he hustled to get an education (Davidson and Oxford) and endured World War II service as an infantry staff officer. John Kennedy surprised Rusk, and most everyone else, by making him Secretary of State, and Lyndon Johnson kept him on. The cold war convinced Rusk that free nations must hang together in a nuclear age. So when Communist forces threatened South Vietnam, the Secretary saw no alternative...