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...Typical. Luchini always seems like the odd man out - the box office success who prefers 400-seat theaters to megabudget films, the high-school dropout who knows all the great French literary classics by heart, the 21st-century movie star whose greatest passion is reciting the works of long-dead writers. If Gérard Depardieu is France's best-known actor today, Luchini is perhaps the most interesting...
...life? "Think of living in your hallway, parked in your driveway," poses Patricia Upchurch, a bus person from Whidbey Island, Wash. Most bus people spend at least a couple of months a year back home to stretch out. Occasionally a bus person leaves the life permanently--one dropout became paranoid about the risk of ripping the roof off under an overpass. Some other kinds of motor homes have lost their tops that way, but the record is not clear on whether a bus has. (If one does get stuck under an overpass, the driver can deflate the air-suspension system...
...Paige is not without his critics. Some say the Houston district's gains on statewide tests have been boosted by an abysmal dropout rate, as underperforming students, under constant pressure, simply give up. A report published last month by Johns Hopkins University ranked Houston 28th in school completion out of the nation's 35 largest school systems, with less than half of ninth-graders at most of the district's high schools sticking it out through graduation. Says Guadelupe San Miguel, a parent with three children in the district and an expert on Hispanic education: "The high-stakes testing Paige...
Paige concedes that the dropout rate in Houston is "undesirable" but doesn't blame it on testing. "Most of it had nothing to do with the school-based factors," he says. "We were improving those rapidly." Paige instead faults societal factors such as teen pregnancy and the lure of employment, even for dropouts, in a strong local economy...
...Paige concedes that the dropout rate in Houston is "undesirable" but doesn't blame it on testing. "Most of it had nothing to do with the school-based factors," he says. "We were improving those rapidly." Paige instead faults societal factors such as teen pregnancy and the lure of employment, even for dropouts, in a strong local economy...