Word: dropout
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...high school dropout, has built a franchise by tweaking his elders, once stating, "No matter how rude and immature they are, how unskillfully they write, the future literary world belongs to the post-'80s generation. They must be more arrogant. A writer must be arrogant." Yet despite his youthful bravado, Han, who has published 14 books and anthologies, generally stays away from sensitive issues such as democracy and human rights. His calculated rebelliousness, says Lydia Liu, a professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, exemplifies the unspoken compact his generation has forged with the ruling Communist Party: Leave...
...Then again, California has legitimate problems that inspire legitimate criticism: gangs, sprawl, disturbing dropout rates, water shortages that don't seem to stop farmers from irrigating rice and cotton in the desert, the crazymaking traffic that Hollywood immortalized in Falling Down. It's still sitting on a fault line. Its expensive housing, even after the real estate crash, poses a real obstacle to the dream of upward mobility. So do its public schools and other public services, which have been deteriorating for years - in part because older white voters have been reluctant to subsidize younger minorities. (Watch TIME...
...areas, tend to have the most performance problems in France. Many students feel like failures after ending up in professional schools. Some also lose interest when they're moved to classes they're not interested in due to lack of space in the ones they'd requested. Truancy and dropout rates are high. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...focuses on helping children from lower-income families, awards students with monthly payments if they've met attendance and performance targets. Like its U.S. counterparts, the EMA initiative puts money directly into students' pockets to spend as they wish. In the decade since it began, the program has reversed dropout rates by more than 2% annually. (Read "Can Arne Duncan (and $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools...
This week, Mr. Schue learns that Carmel High is intentionally flunking students to keep them in rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline (no wonder those actors are so old-looking), so he enlists alcoholic dropout April Rhodes (Chenoweth) to replace Rachel. The sinful April wins the club over by corrupting them, and Emma confronts Will about the compromises he’s making. Is Emma right, or is she just jealous of Will’s “first crush”? (Emma’s poor luck in love keeps getting more and more hilarious. The episode implies that...