Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stopped yet. "Across the street from my elementary school was an arcade owned by a drug-dealing high-school dropout who was dedicated to education," says Wice. "She'd give us free games for every A on our report card, so I started playing pinball in the fourth grade. She used to sell a lot of pot, too, but I didn't know what at was at the time...
Inner cities, poor rural areas and apparently even suburbs--It's no longer a question of students graduating high school with 5th-grade reading levels. Many young people can't even read at all. The author and teacher Jonathan Kozol has said that more than 25 million Americans are illiterate. If people are unable to read, our entire democracy is in danger...
...eighth-grade parochial school dropout from South Boston said Saturday she had been addicted to heroin for eight years and was rejected three times previously for long-term methadone treatment...
...that educators reshape the role of the guidance counselor and start advising students earlier. Harold Howe and others argue that the counseling system needs to be more thoroughly a part of school and not the ancillary service it often is. "Good college counseling begins to work in the seventh grade," insists Herbert Dalton Jr., an admissions officer at Vermont's Middlebury College and an NCCP director. But what about the money for enhanced efforts? Counseling jobs have been easy targets in times of tight budgets. Still, the Dallas school board is now studying ways to redirect funds...
...potential recruits. By 1990, predicts the National Alliance of Business, three out of every four jobs will require education or technical training beyond high school. The Navy has set up remedial-education programs at three training stations to nudge 22,000 of its 100,000 recruits beyond eighth-grade comprehension in reading, math and science. Says retired Admiral James Watkins, former Chief of Naval Operations who now heads the Navy's Personal Excellence and National Security program: "Everyone's scrapping for the same declining resources...