Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. An amendment strengthening Colorado's housing act was approved by the state legislature last week, thanks largely to strong clerical pressure. This summer, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is vastly expanding a tutorial program in Harlem, run by professional educators, to help stem the school dropout rate; the schools will be open to children of all faiths, will operate in 30 centers...
...honorable discharge in December 1958 and went to Detroit. There he was approached by a Russian named Boris Karpovich, a Soviet embassy counselor in Washington who was kicked out of the U.S. in January. Boris told him to get a job with the FBI. Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him. For nearly two years thereafter the Soviets left him alone...
...more demanding and rigid than at the other academies, largely because of the junior service's desire for instant excellence. Air Force graduates have won nine Rhodes scholarships, seven National Science Foundation grants and six Fulbright awards. But another result of the academic and disciplinary pressure is the dropout rate, which is considerably higher than at the other military schools. Two years ago, 93 cadets resigned in a mass protest against certain rules; in 1964, another 90 tried to withdraw for reasons never made public...
Already beyond the schools' help, for example, is Harlem Dropout Harrison Campbell, 16, who quit Manhattan Vocational High School in the tenth grade last November. Campbell wanted to be a carpenter, "but 1 wasn't learning nothing, no how," and no one urged him to stay on. Nowadays, he sleeps until noon, plays cards and records with his buddies until 3 p.m., then ambles over to a neighborhood school playground for a game of basketball or football. Campbell hopes to get a job soon, delivering telephone books at $11.80 a day. "That's good bread," he says...
...Force Institute signed the Universities of North Dakota, Missouri and Wyoming to open similar schools at other missile sites. Unluckily, the Institute's own school to give M.A.s in aerospace technology at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana has lately faltered because of a high dropout rate, leaving the Institute leary of the whole principle. But Ellsworth and the other Minuteman schools have three contracted years to run, and Hastings and Woodruff feel confident that by then there will be no doubting the value of underground education...