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Physicians from a local hospital provide comprehensive health care. Tutors recruited from the Junior League help with homework, and employment counselors place the kids in summer jobs. "Many employers have stereotypes of black urban youth," says Mary Kay Penn, who manages the Milbank program. "It is very hard to persuade them to take these kids on, even when we pay the salary." But last summer Penn placed 75 of the kids in jobs, and Carrera added a silk-screening program so they could learn to design and sell T shirts...
...beaded gowns. Soon he had his own antique-clothing boutique. When ends didn't meet, "I'd rob stained glass out of homes that were being demolished and sell it." Later, at New York City's prestigious Parsons School of Design, Kelly would "sell other people their homework" to make tuition payments. He hung out with the glitterati at Studio 54. "I wanted to be somebody so bad," he sighs. But broke again, he dropped out. No designer would hire...
...Colfaxes, who live on a ranch in California and are largely what they describe as "self-taught," have had almost no formal education. So the experience of Harvard classes, dorm life and homework assignments seemed almost foreign to the brothers when they arrived here...
...schedules were very unstructured," Reed says. "Some days we did a lot of homework, some days we had none. It depended on the weather and what had to be done on the ranch." On the average, however, Reed says he and his brothers would study four or five days each week, during the summer as well...
...study recommends few solutions that are not already part of the education-reform movement: more homework, higher performance standards, more parental involvement and more work in core subjects. But the report also suggests that tests and curriculum be recast to make students analyze what they know rather than just repeat facts and rules. Without such changes, it says, U.S. graduates may soon be unable to compete with those from other countries for the world economy's increasingly complex jobs. "Recent improvements represent a significant national accomplishment," says Gregory Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administered the study...