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...areas of concern about U.S. education, only one is showing some improvement. The dropout, who was a great worry in the alienated, rebellious 1960s, is no longer so common. The percentage of high school students who quit before g graduation has fallen to about 25%, down from the dropout rates of 1960 (31%) and 1950 (37%). At the same time, about 45% of those who do graduate now go on to college, up from 33% in 1960?though that is probably less a measure of scholastic excellence than a reflection of the increase in available places in two-and four...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is the king of street smarts. A seventh grade dropout who speaks four languages, he has parlayed his flair for dramatics into a 22-year city council career, with a unique combination of New Deal-type liberalism and old-fashioned, neighborhood politics. Though he has not lost a race since he was first elected to the school committee in 1951 (when he says he "beat the pants off of Professor Raubough of Harvard"), Vellucci's fortunes, unbuffered by formal alliances or organizations, have never been secure. In 1975 he finished eighth in a nine-seat race...
...held back, but that number dropped to 276 this past June. The Greensville achievement average has jumped from the 30th percentile to above the 50th percentile on national tests, though most of the improvement is in Grades 1 through 7, where past weaknesses are more easily corrected. The school dropout rate has decreased from 132 in the 1972-73 school year to 82 in the past academic year. Meanwhile, hundreds of letters have poured in from educators all over the country seeking information on the program...
Soon afterward, the high school dropout made philosophy his vocation...
...than 1,000% on its original investment in 1969. His firm's current assets: $20 million plus. Anyone who gave Howard $10,000 to invest then would have upwards of $100,000 today. But then, who would have trusted Marc Howard to handle a $2 bet? A college dropout who had held 25 different jobs between 1962 and 1969, he started Howard Associates on begged and borrowed money in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush. Not until 1973 did he feel that he could afford a downtown office and staff. He is behind his desk...