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...younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about education and ambition. The mother (Judith Ivey) wants her children to choose for themselves. He makes his points with force; she wins hers with guile. Precious Sons resembles a "well-made play," much like those William Inge wrote, except that Furth emphasizes reconciliation and renewal rather than...
Bryant, a senior, is the leader of a Phillips Brooks House group that goes to the Deer Island minimum-security facility to tutor inmates hoping to pass the Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED). The GED, which covers math, English, science and social studies, offers the equivalent of a high school diploma--and, for many prisoners, a one-way ticket out of a life of crime...
...federal guidance and adequate funding. The problems faced by bilingual education are problems faced by the whole education system. The number of qualified teachers is diminishing and the drop-out rate is increasing. Recent statistics indicate that fewer than three-fourths of American youths receive a high school diploma...
Entertainer PEARL BAILEY at Syracuse University: "Well, you'll want to go out with your degree and get yourself a job. Don't go out with your diploma in hand and say, 'I am going to be an executive.' I run into them every day. Half of them can't spell. Can't spell. Can't read. Can't write. So if you walk out of here with a diploma in your hand, you better walk out of here with something these professors put in your heads too. And retain it, or you're going to be in bad trouble...
...signature is bogus. That still leaves for the personal diploma touch all the deans of the various faculties, the associate deans, the House Masters, and--for female graduates of the College--Radcliffe President Matina Horner Right...