Word: dropouts
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...that, for Steinberg's later drawings would display an exceedingly refined sense of architectural convention, of the parodies of style learned by precision rendering: the sharp, etched shadows and intricately reasoned-out facades of his dream skyscrapers on the American horizon could only have been drawn by an architectural dropout gazing with irony on his past. "You learn all the cliches of your time. My time was late cubism, via Bauhaus; our clouds came straight out of Arp, complete with a hole in the middle; even our trees were influenced by the mania for the kidney shape...
Advocates of bilingualism contend that the programs make foreign-born students feel welcome in American society and decrease staggering dropout rates. (For Puerto Rican students in Chicago, the dropout rate runs about 70% a year, compared with 35% overall.) Moreover, they argue, students learn better through a gradual transition into English. That argument, however, has not been proved. A 1977 nationwide study of 150 schools and 11,500 students, conducted by the American Institute for Research in Palo Alto, Calif., found that bilingual programs helped children learn such subjects as math...
...people are gentle; the jungle is unscarred. Eight years ago, Bob Arthur, an industrial designer who developed the electric carving knife, sold his house in Laguna Beach, Calif., and began looking for a better way of life. Today his Village Hotel reflects the fantasy of every '60s dropout. Papaya, mango, avocado and coconut trees grow dense and wild around the hotel's thatched bungalows, each of which has a wrap-around view of the lagoon. Every evening Arthur, his wife Patti and their four children munch breadfruit chips; dinner is a choice between fresh tuna and turtle steak...
...This fantasy is not without its comic rewards. In the '50s, Father Knows Best concluded with an Eisenhower-like Robert Young counseling his children about the wages of maturity. Now the same sermons are delivered with far more panache at the end of Happy Days by Fonzie, the dropout greaser. Only on Family are parents still role models, but even they are challenged by strong children who keep the adults from getting too pompous...
Many students do not even bother with that. The dropout rate has fallen from 24% in 1966 to 13% last year, but a fourth of the students miss at least one period a day. Save for great enthusiasm about football games and other sports, students report, apathy plagues Marshfield. It is hard to get anyone to run for student office. Only 43 freshmen out of 400 voted last year for their class officers. On the other hand, violence is rare: surprisingly so, since a strict caste system separates the "jocks" (often children of the town's wealthier residents...