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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...
...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...
...Stop Dropouts. What makes Newton different is its refusal to mistake physical growth for educational progress. The town is proud that it planned its schools so well that it has never had a single day of double sessions, prouder that as a pioneer in spotting potential failures it has cut its dropout rate almost to zero. This concern wins rewards: since 1962, Newton has received more than $500,000 in foundation grants for refining new ways of teaching everything from nursing to geography to business history. When the Harvard Graduate School of Education tries out a new idea, from team...
...servicemen go back to become everything from auto mechanic to bacteriologist to weatherman. Almost 100,000 men now in the services have been raised to the equivalent of a high school education since they entered-a figure equal to about a tenth of the nation's annual school dropout rate...