Word: drop-out
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...creates a national culture. The dictionary catalogues this particular information, excluding whatever Hirsch considers too specialized, generalized, regional or transient. He claims that widespread study of this body of knowledge can reverse the American educational decline. Apparently, meager teacher's salaries, budget cuts in public schooling, drugs and escalating drop-out rates are merely secondary causes of this decline. If teachers promised to pepper their lectures with proverbs, Biblical references and other culturally relevant trivia, would students really stay in school? Is this the way to achieve "high universal literacy...
...playground. There were the underachieving school years at Valley Forge Military Academy (the Pencey Prep of Catcher), the brief attendance at New York University and Ursinus College, and enrollment in Burnett's short-story course at Columbia, where Hamilton assembles a sketch of an "on-the-make young college drop-out plotting his first literary career moves...
...ideas are best for the country. Simon recognizes that America is fast becoming a land divided: with the affluent and educated on one side, and the destitute and the drop-out on the other. (Divisions that have been enhanced by the policies of the Reagan Administration.) That is why Simon, an author of 10 books and newspaper publisher at 19, has targeted his programs for the future on improving education and eliminating illiteracy. Compare that to his so-called liberal foe, Mike Dukakis, who has received poor grades from Massachusetts public educators for being stingy on public university funding...
...judge wrote that Whitehead was "manipulative, impulsive and exploitive...a woman without empathy." Stern and his physician wife, he reasoned, would make better parents; they could surely provide more advantages for the baby than Whitehead, a high school drop-out, and her garbage collector husband. The Sterns, he noted, might one day give Melissa music lessons...
...judging by reduced drop-out rates for students who take the course, the program seems to be succeeding. More than 56 percent of the students who have taken the course in the last seven years have stayed in school, as opposed to 50 percent for students who have not taken the course...