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...finds himself organizing workers of every hue in a North Carolina union. "People say: 'That's an impossible dream. You sound like Martin Luther King' . . . I don't think it's an impossible dream. It's happened in my life." A high school dropout, once thought to be incorrigible, institutionalized many times, goes back to school at the age of 28 and becomes an influential social worker, changing the lives of troubled adolescents. Her warning: "Don't go on like you do, or you'll end up like...
...academic effectiveness is hard to measure. Shockingly, very little hard effort thus far has even been made to measure it. Critics and proponents alike have few real facts to go on. Both seem to agree that in the hands of a good teacher, bilingual programs reduce the high dropout rate among non-English-speaking students. They also agree that there is a terrible shortage of good bilingual teachers...
...weekenders must maintain the same minimum C average and pay the same tuition ($149 per quarter for freshmen and sophomores, $266.50 for juniors and seniors) required of regular students. But unlike the weekday program, Weekend College admits any high school graduate, regardless of his or her grades. The quarterly dropout rate is about 50%, double WSU's overall average, though many of those who leave do so because of job changes or marital problems and return later on. Laid-offautoworkers can receive unemployment benefits while enrolled in Weekend College, but are ineligible for such aid if they become full...
When he was a teen on the tennis circuit, much was made of Borg the high school dropout who passed his time reading comicbooks. His taste now runs to World War II novels and histories, but he finds it difficult to keep his mind on such tomes during a tournament. "No one believes how hard you have to concentrate on the court. After four hours of thinking, thinking, on every point, I come back to the hotel, and I am so mentally exhausted, all I can do is lie on the bed and watch the ceiling...
...recent political gains have created little social or economic progress. The dropout rate in high school for blacks is 55%. More than a third of the city's black population is below the national poverty level ($6,700 for an urban family of four). Unemployment for young blacks is put at nearly 60%. The mayor's office recently estimated that 586,000 of the city's teen-agers and adults qualified for federally created jobs: there are exactly 68,700 to be given out this year. To make matters worse, in the past decade Chicago has lost...