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...highly selective institutions, the vast majority of students graduate. But at public universities, which educate most U.S. students getting bachelor's degrees, nearly 60% fail to complete degrees within five years--and half of those leave during the first year. The dropout rate is even higher at many community colleges, where students are juggling jobs with their course work...
...Sher, one of the pioneers, introduced Meijin's first PDA to China in 1995. A high-school dropout, he and his family slipped away to Hong Kong from his native Fujian during the Cultural Revolution. Today, the family has built a small empire with interests in property and light manufacturing. Sher struggled for years to build a market for PDAs. Even today, manufacturers complain that their main competition in China is the Filofax. "We started from zero. A complete nothing," Sher says. Today the employer of 900, he likes to needle rivals, notably Hi-Tech Wealth president Zhang Zhengyu...
Dukakis recalled an America of vicious racism and segregation, poverty, and high school dropout rates far surpassing those of today, and he scoffed at those who might try to forget that “the good old days” also had their share of today’s concerns, such as violence and teen pregnancy...
SENTENCED. LORI BERENSON, 31, American citizen convicted on charges of colluding with guerrillas to take the Peruvian Congress hostage; to 20 years in prison; in Lima, Peru. The M.I.T. dropout, sentenced to life in prison in 1996, sought and received a new trial. After the verdict, she defiantly told the court, "I consider this an unjust sentence...
...Dropout parents are found across the spectrum of income and education. Low-income couples and single moms often juggle multiple jobs, and have little time or energy for teacher conferences or homework help. Professional couples with two demanding careers often view the schools as subcontractors whom they pay, through hefty taxes, to fill ever more complex roles: as babysitters, coaches, cops, nurses, therapists and surrogate parents. These extra burdens come at a time when teachers face rising pressure to show results in the classroom. Isabelle Carduner, a French teacher at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., says too many...