Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stop Dropouts. What makes Newton different is its refusal to mistake physical growth for educational progress. The town is proud that it planned its schools so well that it has never had a single day of double sessions, prouder that as a pioneer in spotting potential failures it has cut its dropout rate almost to zero. This concern wins rewards: since 1962, Newton has received more than $500,000 in foundation grants for refining new ways of teaching everything from nursing to geography to business history. When the Harvard Graduate School of Education tries out a new idea, from team...
...servicemen go back to become everything from auto mechanic to bacteriologist to weatherman. Almost 100,000 men now in the services have been raised to the equivalent of a high school education since they entered-a figure equal to about a tenth of the nation's annual school dropout rate...
...committee has a heavy dropout rate: 50%. But survivors have done well. Bradley Patterson Jr., the first committee student, is now executive director of the Peace Corps. Most others teach, in fields from science history to political philosophy, at schools from M.I.T. to Cornell. On the committee itself are two alumni, Arabist Hodgson and Classicist Redfield...
...measure its methods, NSSFNS President Richard L. Plaut launched a survey of 1,278 recent proteges. The overall dropout rate turned out to be 33.4%-as against the national rate of 60%.* Of 509 willing to provide complete information, 1% made Phi Beta Kappa and 10% graduated with honors. Southerners topped the Northerners at high-standard campuses...
...Main reasons: money, military service and (especially among girls) marriage. Harvard's dropout rate is 25%, Wisconsin's 46%, Indiana's 56%. Many eventually return or graduate elsewhere, but this still leaves the national net dropout rate...