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With soaring costs and double-digit truancy, increasing illiteracy and steadily falling Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, many American high schools are clearly in trouble. This week's cover story examines the plight of U.S. secondary education today and profiles three high schools not burdened with the special, severe social problems of the inner cities...
Mounting absenteeism. According to the Washington-based National Association of Secondary School Principals, absenteeism is now the worst problem facing teachers, ahead of poor motivation, lack of discipline, vandalism, tardiness and drug use. In Florida's Dade County (Miami), school officials trying to cut double-digit truancy rates in low-income areas have been experimenting?rather successfully?with luring kids to class with free hamburgers, Frisbees, T shirts and yo-yos donated by local businessmen. After a decade of stormy debate, there is no consensus about how schools can right the wrongs. Conservative back to basics" forces rail that...
...holding back on the expansion programs that are necessary to keep production I growing and bring down unemployment. And businessmen already have plenty of cause for such caution. The deep recession of 1973-75 shook their faith that the economy would keep rising, with only minor setbacks; the double-digit inflation of 1974 made them doubt that they could realistically estimate future costs; the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fears of energy shortages that followed caused them to wonder whether they could find fuel to power new plants, and at what price. Investment always involves some risk...
...stayed, with Koch holding a 20-percentage-point lead in most polls, while Goodman and Farber muddle around in the single-digit range. But if most New Yorkers believe Koch is the answer, they seem to have failed to ask the question: Who is Koch, and why is he going to run Gotham? What makes him different from Cuomo, Beame, or the rest of the lifeless pack...
...offices at the Hotel Matignon, Barre has applied textbook economics to France's problems. His austere "Plan Barre," announced in September of last year, urged business to limit wage hikes to 6.5% a year, v. the 17% annual rate that was handsomely contributing to France's double-digit inflation. To reduce the country's costly oil imports, Barre has jacked up the price of "super" gasoline nearly 21%, to $1.85 per gal. He also imposed a three-month price freeze and lowered value-added (sales) taxes on a wide range of consumer goods...