Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that U.S. educators hail as new and different is quietly under way in Chicago. Long before Sputnik, Willis began beefing up his curriculum, launched programs for gifted students. He got $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to start junior college TV courses, another $468,500 to tackle the school dropout problem. He has abolished grades-by-age in several elementary schools; this summer he had a 50-man team evaluating 10,000 textbooks and teaching aids for possible...
...problems without legislation, in a peaceful manner. It keeps us out of the trouble other nations have had." A Catholic convert who had to drop out of Detroit's Wayne State University for lack of money, thoughtful Lou Seaton is well able to lecture fellow Wayne dropout Walter Reuther about social justice-whenever the voluble Reuther lets him get a word...
...noncredit term touring Europe after the junior year. To make Parsons a summer festival, he staged a moonlight Mississippi cruise. Soon due: a summer semester-end blowout, complete with genuine Indians holding up a stagecoach, and contests to choose a Miss Frontier and catch a greased pig. The freshman dropout rate has fallen...