Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teacher's salaries, budget cuts in public schooling, drugs and escalating drop-out rates are merely secondary causes of this decline. If teachers promised to pepper their lectures with proverbs, Biblical references and other culturally relevant trivia, would students really stay in school? Is this the way to achieve "high universal literacy...
...loophole in the 1983 rule allowed "partial qualifiers," students with a 2.0 high school GPA who didn't make the requisite standardized test score, to attend college on athletic scholarships for one year. Although partial qualifiers lost one year of athletic eligibility and were not permitted to compete in their first year, they had a chance to gain eligibility by posting a 2.0 GPA during that year...
...problem with this loophole is that it provided a tremendous incentive for unscrupulous institutions to cheat. High schools were under pressure to give academically deficient athletes a C average so they would be eligible for athletic scholarships. Dishonest colleges could make partial qualifiers eligible by enrolling them in gut courses. So Proposition 48 only hurt the schools that were honest enough not to take advantage...
Even worse, sheltering academically deficient students throughout high school and college gives them the destructive perception that their athletic ability will always grant them success without academic achievment. Except for the miniscule number who become professionals, college athletes will eventually discover that athletic ability alone is not a ticket to success in the rigorous real world...
...terms of looking at possibilities after college, it was high time to do well academically," Knight says. "The opportunities after college from soccer are virtually non-existent...