Word: dropout
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Under the new Chicago School Reform plan which gives more authority to local schools, school officials are trying to improve Foreman's 40 percent dropout rate and depressed standardized test scores...
...have brought B.U. into the top 10, but in only one category: expenses," said Weld, who pointed to a 38 percent dropout rate at the university as evidence that Silber's "B.U. miracle" is as corrupt as Dukakis' "Massachusetts miracle...
...black students in New York City have filed a class action against state education officials, charging that the absence of a multicultural history curriculum perpetuates a "lack of self-esteem and self- worth" among African-American students. That, in turn, they argue, contributes to blacks' poor academic performance, high dropout rate and "antisocial behavior." By contrast, 28 prominent scholars, including historian William Manchester and educator and psychologist Kenneth B. Clark, are protesting a proposed revision of New York State's public school history curriculum, which, they say, risks reducing history to "ethnic cheerleading." In California, meanwhile, the state curriculum commission...
...Master Sergeant Doe led a band of soldiers into the executive mansion, shot down President William Tolbert and later executed 13 of Tolbert's associates on the beach. High school dropout Doe thereupon became President, the first from one of the indigenous tribes, the Krahns. He accused his predecessors of corruption, but his main goal was the end of Americo- Liberian rule. "The choice we faced," recalls Richard Moose, who was then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "was either to move into the situation, which was universally considered out of the question, and take control -- or live with...
Such passionate debate makes it unlikely that primary-grade classrooms for black boys will become the norm anytime soon. Still, unless something else is done to make single-parent black homes more supportive of these children, or to help reduce their soaring dropout and suspension rates, the idea could attract more disciples -- ironically hastening the day when "separate but equal" may actually help black youths rather than hurt them...