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...many American cities, young black men are a group in critical condition, growing up into lives of poverty, crime and early death. In an attempt to stem that tide, the board of education in Detroit -- where black males have a 54% dropout rate -- decided to establish three all-male public schools. Open to all races but focused chiefly on black students, they were to feature high academic standards, strict discipline and a stress on African-American history...
...program's final report card won't be available until a federally ordered evaluation is completed later this year. Thompson declares that Learnfare "is encouraging teens to return to school and to attend regularly." But the evidence suggests otherwise. Whereas the dropout rate in Milwaukee was 10.5% in 1988, the year before Learnfare started, it skyrocketed to 14.7% in the 1989-90 academic year...
Sergeyev fears that if Gorbachev's policies do not finish off the communists, the party's most prominent dropout, Boris Yeltsin, will. In one of his first acts as president of the Russian Federation, Yeltsin banished all party organizations from the workplace and from state institutions. His decree was aimed like an ax at the very roots of communist power: the dense tangle of party cells in factories and businesses that have functioned alongside state agencies as a shadow system of administration. This party bureaucracy has been a major brake on radical economic reforms...
Statistical evidence of the parochial system's success is striking. James Coleman, a University of Chicago sociologist, has found that Catholic high school students outperform their public school counterparts in reading, vocabulary, mathematics and writing. The dropout rate in Catholic high schools was less than 4%, he discovered, compared with more than 14% in public schools. Black or Hispanic students are three times as likely to graduate in four years as their public school counterparts. Some 83% of the graduates go to college, in contrast to 52% of those from public school...
Scientology is now run by David Miscavige, 31, a high school dropout and second-generation church member. Defectors describe him as cunning, ruthless and so paranoid about perceived enemies that he kept plastic wrap over his glass of water. His obsession is to attain credibility for Scientology in the 1990s. Among other tactics, the group...