Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solution to the problem. Each year 500,000 men are inducted into the military. One hundred thousand are drafted the others enlist. If the draft were abolished, the services would lose not only the 100,000 draftees, but also most of the other 400,000. As the above mentioned dropout figures suggest, nine out of ten men enlist because of the threat of the draft. Once free of that threat, they show little eagerness to stay in uniform...
Sadly, it was the Wallace line that was emphasized when the country's newspapers and magazines suddenly discovered Washington this summer. The crime statistics for the District were quoted ad nauseam. The rickety schools and the high dropout rate were cited again and again, and attention was always called to the fact that the schools were 35 per cent Negro in enrollment. No less than six major magazines, plus the New York Times, ran lengthy articles emphasizing crime in the District and the city's racial problems...
...High School. Suave and swellegant Cary Grant, 59, quickly toured the building, averaged a swoon a room. The British-born actor was in town to campaign for the privately sponsored Stay-in-School Fund, dropped in on the overcrowded, predominantly Negro classes to get an idea of what causes dropouts. Wasn't he a dropout himself? someone asked. Perish the thought, replied Cary, whose formal education ended at the age of 13. "I was expelled. I went to a perfectly good school, but they couldn't stand...
...fund drive for sitins. He dropped out of Yale to run N.S.M. because "I felt a call to do it." Last summer Countryman & Co. set up classes for the school-less Negro youngsters of Virginia's Prince Edward County, and also tackled North Philadelphia, where the high school dropout rate is 60% and only 2½% of the kids get to college. N.S.M. recruited 175 tutors (including about 70 Negroes) at colleges from Amherst to Sarah Lawrence, put them to work with 375 youngsters for four hours a week all summer. One byproduct: Countryman's marriage to Tutor...
Also in the field of education one volunteer, a 56-year-old woman, is undertaking a study of the causes of the high dropout rate in Harlem's schools...