Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy Valley. Above all, Harlem is, as the man said, home. "You couldn't pay me to live anywhere else," says a Negro high school dropout. "A white man, he's got a mark on him if he comes up here. I got a mark on me if I go down there." Still some Negroes would live almost anywhere else just to get out of the ghetto. "I felt caged, like an animal," said Writer James Baldwin, who fled to Greenwich Village and then to Europe. "I felt if I didn't get out I would slowly...
...many officials, the best hope of breaking the self-renewing jobs-housing-education cycle lies in the schools. By the time they reach sixth grade, Harlem's children are nearly two full years behind their classmates downtown. The dropout rate is 55%, and the children often as not wind up on the streets, for the unemployment rate among Negro teen-agers is 40%. These youths are the despair of Harlem, for they are, in a sense, living proof of its failure. "Look at those damned kids," snapped a Negro man as packs of teenagers ran wild last week. "They...
...approved by the Senate, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, under the proposed aegis of Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, provides for a work-training program aimed at stemming the growing school-dropout population, a work-study program to help needy college students, a $340 million fund to aid localities in their own anti-poverty schemes, and money for rural-poverty loans and small-business loans. The only major Senate amendment was one introduced by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. It was a sort of concession to states' rights forces, and gave Governors the power to veto...
...greater shadow than a high school freshman at the beach. But it had a commendably professional sheen, and its contents sought to grapple with some of the problems and interests of its peers: a Denver boy's account of how it feels to be a high school dropout, a page of verse composed by an 18-year-old girl, a random assortment of teenage views on public school integration. All this may not have looked like serious competition to the call of the juke joint, but the first run of 5,000 copies sold briskly at 25? each...
Obviously no typical dropout, he went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...