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...more demanding and rigid than at the other academies, largely because of the junior service's desire for instant excellence. Air Force graduates have won nine Rhodes scholarships, seven National Science Foundation grants and six Fulbright awards. But another result of the academic and disciplinary pressure is the dropout rate, which is considerably higher than at the other military schools. Two years ago, 93 cadets resigned in a mass protest against certain rules; in 1964, another 90 tried to withdraw for reasons never made public...
Already beyond the schools' help, for example, is Harlem Dropout Harrison Campbell, 16, who quit Manhattan Vocational High School in the tenth grade last November. Campbell wanted to be a carpenter, "but 1 wasn't learning nothing, no how," and no one urged him to stay on. Nowadays, he sleeps until noon, plays cards and records with his buddies until 3 p.m., then ambles over to a neighborhood school playground for a game of basketball or football. Campbell hopes to get a job soon, delivering telephone books at $11.80 a day. "That's good bread," he says...
...qualification, Ohio State demanded B.A.s acquired with B-minus or better averages from accredited schools, and the Air Force picked only men who passed muster. One professor finds the students "a shade above those I've had on the main campus." The dropout rate at Minuteman U. is 19% a year, compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status...
...Force Institute signed the Universities of North Dakota, Missouri and Wyoming to open similar schools at other missile sites. Unluckily, the Institute's own school to give M.A.s in aerospace technology at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana has lately faltered because of a high dropout rate, leaving the Institute leary of the whole principle. But Ellsworth and the other Minuteman schools have three contracted years to run, and Hastings and Woodruff feel confident that by then there will be no doubting the value of underground education...
...herself was educated only through the ninth grade; unthinking people hurt her deeply by imitating her weak grammar or by ascribing to her an accent she does not have. The mere mention of a high school dropout will start her lecturing: "You never know, one of these kids may have something but not the money or means to finish...