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...Army memo, written in May, projects that the service will lack half the seasoned captains it needs next year. To help slow the dropout rate, the Army has offered a $20,000 re-enlistment bonus. Senior officers have been encouraged to pull younger ones aside and encourage them to stay. "There is a captain shortage," said an Army spokeswoman. "We're doing what we can. We have a lot of deployments...
That is why the expectations surrounding racism should be no different for any person—college-educated or high school dropout, rich or poor, Quad or river—than they are for anyone else. For news outlets, either explicitly or implicitly, to hold a certain sect of people to a higher standard than another gives some people more license than others to act unjustly...
...that laid-back, inappropriate confidence that makes Rogen so endearing. You expect someone so obviously out of place everywhere--a 13-year-old on a stand-up-comedy stage, an 18-year-old high school dropout on a sitcom-writing staff, the schlub who gets to romance Katherine Heigl--to be uncomfortable. Instead, he acts as if, while he may have wandered into the scene accidentally, he belongs there. Or maybe he is stoned...
...four or five years later, though the rate has inched up from 47% in 2001 to 52.7% in 2005, according to city figures. Last year 48% of Chicago's graduating seniors enrolled in college in the fall, according to the National Student Clearing House. Raising graduation rates, reducing the dropout numbers and ensuring college readiness - particularly among poor and minority students - is the chief goal of the Gates Foundation's work in education, and one it is pursuing in about 30 U.S. cities...
...task is monumental, as Gates could see. She and Allan Golston, the foundation's president of U.S. programs, visited two large public high schools, one with a high graduation rate and the other with a long history as a dropout factory. But even at John Hope College Prep, the stronger of the two, only 27% of students passed state exams last year. Neither school was meeting federal requirements for progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago public schools, was on hand to show some the district's biggest benefactors his efforts to change that...