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Nebraska was something of a different story. Bush was gaining 75 percent of the vote, and campaign dropout Bob Dole from next door Kansas was winning 21 percent...
...Good schools for disadvantaged and minority children are much too rare ((and)) the dropout rate among blacks and Hispanic youth in many of our inner cities is perilously high...
Nowhere is this more evident than in Chicago. Despite what Superintendent of Schools Manford Byrd calls a "flurry of ((reform)) activity," studies show that the dropout rate remains 46% overall and 56% for minorities. Earlier this year, Bennett declared Chicago schools to be the nation's worst. Critics claim that the reforms have been little more than lip service from a bureaucracy with no intention of changing. Those innovations that have made it into the classroom may have done more harm than good. The back-to-basics emphasis, for instance, makes no sense in a system that has already...
With a third Broadway opening, High School Dropout August Wilson is the foremost dramatist of the U. S. black experience...
Bush was winning 85 percent of the vote, to 7 percent each for Robertson and recent campaign dropout Sen. Robert Dole...