Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department, invoking its 1961 ban on travel to Cuba, turned down U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, 22, who wanted to compete in Havana's international Capablanca Memorial Tournament. Checked tem porarily, the moodily brilliant high school dropout studied the board, then maneuvered thus: he cabled Cuba's Na tional Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, asked if he might play the tournament by telephone or cable from New York. Havana has agreed, says Bobby's attorney, and if arrangements can be made through the World Chess Federation, Brooklyn's grand master will be moving...
...practiced experimentally elsewhere in that it fixes curricula firmly beginning with the fourth grade and allows little choice of courses. Kids are permitted to jump up a track or so, if capable. Keeping classwork commensurate with abilities seems to decrease the incentive to quit school: Washington's dropout rate has declined to 36%, from 52% when Hansen took over seven years...
...Twilight Schools let tough boys who disturb regular classes as they near the dropout age of 16 go instead to small all-male classes from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m., getting on such personal terms with teachers that sometimes they play basketball with them after class. Explains Coordinator Robert Belt: "The boys don't have audiences to show off how disruptive they might be-there are no girls." Three-fifths of the 180 boys enrolled in two such pilot schools are to return to normal classes in the fall and remain in school past...
...School to Aid Youth (so named to form the acronym STAY) teaches students who leave school to work but want to earn a diploma in night classes. Of 205 students who volunteered, a surprising 70% are from the top two tracks of the school system. "A dropout student is not necessarily a dumb student," says Project Director William Carpenter. "He is usually bored, maladjusted, has problems with his family, or needs money...
Murray Kaufman, as only the K's bank manager knows him, is something of an expert in the field-he was a dropout himself 25 years ago from The Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High ("Man, you feel you gotta bust out"). Further, as a disk jockey who is both widely syndicated (he claims 106 stations) and well connected (he is known by his fans as "the Fifth Beatle," and has been included in the Beatles' impending movie), he should know what's happening. His show for Sarge's Office of Economic Opportunity had almost...