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...access. The state has managed to keep teen pregnancy on the decline for 15 years. For this, it should be applauded. There has been reached a clear recognition that these births are both the source of personal anguish and the matrix of large-scale social problems: natal health risks, dropout rates, and even incarceration figures share an observable, direct link to the number of young mothers. This makes cuts in health-education funding—down 26 percent since 2001—seem especially puzzling; each dollar spent teaching students about birth control and sexual responsibility would seem to save...
...revenue for Exxon Mobil.) But there's no reason that business can't be a major part of the climate change solution, or that profit isn't concordant with a desire to save the Earth. Krupp writes about Jack Newman, a California surfer and former college dropout who helped found the promising biofuel start up Amyris. The company is working on ways to bioengineer better, cleaner and more efficient biofuels. It's extremely cool stuff, and potentially very profitable, but for Newman this goes beyond the money. "If we're successful, we'll be wealthy, which means...
...elementary and middle schools—are generating smaller numbers than have been coming up and through high school,” said Payzant, who led the Boston Public Schools from 1995 to 2006. “There’s no dramatic shift in the dropout rate or graduation rate of students. It’s overall demographics...
...surely carry the state in November. G.O.P. primaries used to be the main events in Vermont, deciding whether progressive Republicans or conservative Republicans would represent the state in Washington and Montpelier, but now they're basically irrelevant. In 1998, an elderly dairy farmer named Fred Tuttle - a high school dropout who had starred in a low-budget political farce called Man With a Plan but had never showed any interest in public policy - won the G.O.P. primary to challenge Senator Leahy with a $16 campaign budget. (The key moment came during a radio debate, when he stumped his multimillionaire opponent...
...Dropout rates are even more staggering in engineering: only 40 out of the 123 students in the Class of 2008 who said they wanted to study engineering are currently doing...