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...talk on education did serve a useful purpose. National leaders discussed important issues such as adult illiteracy, a declining supply of teachers, and troubling dropout rates. Governors shared experiences on promising new approaches to education, such as administrative decentralization which would transfer power from bureaucrats to teachers. For his part, Bush vowed to cooperate with governors to increase flexibility and accountability in state education. Notably, Bush also pledged to increase funding for Head Start, a successful pre-school program for poor children, by $250 million...
...conference, however, was too little, too late for a man who promised to be the "Education President." Yes, the conference acknowledged that adult illiteracy is a problem, but what should be done about it and, perhaps most important, who will pay? Yes, we must decrease dropout rates, but how and when...
...Reducing dropout rates and raising academic performance...
...atop the summit if Foreman manages to conquer it again? Money? "A lot of it," Foreman acknowledges. Not for lavish houses in California, or Mercedes and Corvettes. Foreman has had those. "For the kids," he explains. "I want to give them the same shot I had." The ninth-grade dropout got his rebirth in the Job Corps. Since 1984, he's dispensed his own good deeds at the George Foreman Youth and Community Center on Houston's north side. The small gym with its boxing ring and exercise gear is an after-school haven for 400 youths, some of them...
...decades after the enactment of "correctional" legislation--civil rights, affirmative action and welfare--Blacks are worse off than they were before. Unemployment, percentage on public assistance, unwed mothers and dropout rates among Blacks are all up, passing 1960s levels...