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...aware that there is a traditionally higher dropout rate for women than men," he says of math concentrators. Schmid says the department decided last year to offer Math 101 for students interested in the field. "Math 101 exposes students to what math is like," he says...
...counseling to help disadvantaged students all the way through. Since 1976, according to Reginald Wilson, who tracks minority affairs for the American Council on Education, the share of black high school graduates attending college has dropped from 35.4% to about 30.8%, vs. 38.8% for whites -- primarily because of higher dropout rates for blacks. "The tragedy on many campuses," says Wilson, "is that recruitment of minority students gets a lot of attention but remedial programs necessary for them to succeed...
Caruba has always been obsessed with ennui. He links boredom to drug and alcohol abuse, high school dropout rates, violent crime, alarming suicide statistics and the general decline of the American family. He also thinks that boredom is, well, boring. There are better ways to spend a life...
...case for the longer school year is particularly acute in the inner cities, where family ties are weak, at-home support for education is often minimal and dropout rates are high. Summertime spent on the hot ghetto streets is hardly as culturally enriching as the time middle-class students devote to camps, exotic vacations and highly organized sports. Moton and Lockett, for example, are located near New Orleans' notorious Florida and Desire housing projects, where children sometimes skip rope within the sound of gunfire. "This has nothing to do with competition with the Japanese and everything to do with urban...
...school started, when the A.C.L.U. and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Detroit mother with three daughters. The suit argued that the plan would deny girls the right to an equal education. Not incidentally, black girls in Detroit have a 45% dropout rate. Last week U.S. District Judge George E. Woods agreed and ordered school officials to come up with a program to accommodate both sexes. "The young adolescent black male is most definitely an endangered species in this community," said Woods. "But the board has not shown the presence of girls...