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...Then again, California has legitimate problems that inspire legitimate criticism: gangs, sprawl, disturbing dropout rates, water shortages that don't seem to stop farmers from irrigating rice and cotton in the desert, the crazymaking traffic that Hollywood immortalized in Falling Down. It's still sitting on a fault line. Its expensive housing, even after the real estate crash, poses a real obstacle to the dream of upward mobility. So do its public schools and other public services, which have been deteriorating for years - in part because older white voters have been reluctant to subsidize younger minorities. (Watch TIME...
...areas, tend to have the most performance problems in France. Many students feel like failures after ending up in professional schools. Some also lose interest when they're moved to classes they're not interested in due to lack of space in the ones they'd requested. Truancy and dropout rates are high. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...focuses on helping children from lower-income families, awards students with monthly payments if they've met attendance and performance targets. Like its U.S. counterparts, the EMA initiative puts money directly into students' pockets to spend as they wish. In the decade since it began, the program has reversed dropout rates by more than 2% annually. (Read "Can Arne Duncan (and $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools...
This week, Mr. Schue learns that Carmel High is intentionally flunking students to keep them in rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline (no wonder those actors are so old-looking), so he enlists alcoholic dropout April Rhodes (Chenoweth) to replace Rachel. The sinful April wins the club over by corrupting them, and Emma confronts Will about the compromises he’s making. Is Emma right, or is she just jealous of Will’s “first crush”? (Emma’s poor luck in love keeps getting more and more hilarious. The episode implies that...
...White House has insisted that Obama's address won't dip into policy and is geared primarily toward reducing the nation's troubling dropout rate. White House Deputy Policy Director Heather Higginbottom told the Associated Press that "it's really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this. It's simply a plea to students to take their learning seriously. Find out what they're good at. Set goals." The irony of the backlash, in fact, is that much of Obama's education platform, especially its emphasis on personal responsibility over entitlement, dovetails with conservative tenets...