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...survey of high-school seniors, investigators found that 12% had never taken any algebra or geometry, 26% had dropped mathematics after only one year, 30% had dropped it after two. Nor was this merely a matter of dullness or inability. Of the brightest 30%, four in ten never went beyond elementary arithmetic...
...result of the high school's failure, says E.T.S., U.S. colleges spend an inordinate amount of time going over ground that should already have been covered. "One study shows that 62% of the colleges are in this position. An engineering school reports that 72% of its students entering in September 1955 were found so mathematically inadequate that they had to take a review of high-school mathematics before they could qualify for the regular freshman course...
...might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted human resource. Some of Potential's tables show the school experience as of 1950 of young Southern Negro men. Most of them came from poor, unstable families; many had stunted intellectual potentials before they ever arrived at school. In the 18-19-year age group, 1.7% never got to school at all. Of this group, 17.7% completed only one to four years of school. High-school diplomas were won by only 14.7% in the 20-24-year bracket. Only 2.2% of the 30-34-year category...
...taught Teachers. As Potential reckons the potential, if U.S. Negroes were lifted to the educational level of whites outside the South, there would annually be 143.5% more Negro high-school graduates, 147% more college graduates. Such figures, however, reflect only the lesser quantity, not the lower quality, of current Negro education. Potential's authors report: "On the average [the South's] Negro teachers are much less able than white teachers [despite] the same amount of formal preparation." The vicious cycle: "Like other young Negroes, those preparing to teach are usually handicapped by poor schools and deprived backgrounds." Thus...
...Young Lions. In Cavite, P.I., City Lawyers' League President Homero Alberto asked police to crack down on high-school students who carried guns to class, complained: "The students use the firearms either for threatening their teachers or unduly commanding the respect of their fellow students...