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...through the area. In quick, efficient visits to piney woods, farms, back-road gas stations and roadside house trailers, they collected a motley crew of 19 more men?including a Freewill Baptist preacher, a tavern bouncer, a 71-year-old Philadelphia cop, and a 17-year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers had been so shameless, shocking and senseless a crime...
...Paul high schools (Mechanic Arts High has been closed). The results have been dramatic. Between 1977 and 1984, births to female students fell from 59 per thousand to 26 per thousand. Even girls who did become pregnant seemed to benefit from the counseling. At Mechanic Arts High, their dropout rate fell from 45% to 10%, and only 1% had another unwanted pregnancy within two years of the first. The controversial clinic at Chicago's DuSable High School and ones at other schools around the country were modeled after St. Paul's pioneering program...
...paths of Colono, a high-school dropout, and Pring-Wilson, a student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, converged the night of the fatal stabbing, setting up a tantalizing back story on which the press capitalized...
...August, a certain number typically conclude that it was all a big mistake, that a nice liberal-arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since the new superintendent who took command that July, Lieut. General William Lennox, was looking to sharpen the standards. "We had to tighten things up a bit," he says, "give more of the sense of what life is like in the Army." The changes were necessary...
...they fleeing? Australian investigators have found stress in the mix, but it's research out of the U.S. - where teacher dropout rates match Australia's - that has homed in on what the main stresses are. Asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of teachers cited involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice, according to the 2004 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. Some 73% of beginning teachers said too many parents treat teachers as adversaries. Australian educators make the same observations: "I say to some of our parents," says Allen Brooke, principal of Caroline Chisholm...