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...others, proud, and more than a little scared, are preparing to graduate. One is Gray, 27, who is attending college, lining up a job and planning to leave with her eleven-month-old son. "All my life I was told I was nothing but dirt," says Gray. "Minnie made me believe I wasn't dirt and could do anything I wanted and that I didn't need drugs...
First the good news: American students have improved their basic reading, writing, math and science skills over the past 20 years. Now the bad news: few can apply that knowledge in ways that would help them excel in college, get a job or even perform the necessary tasks of daily life. "We have a solid foundation of basic skills," says Archie Lapointe, executive director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), which last week issued a far-ranging study on the subject. "But there is stagnation as far as high- order thinking skills are concerned...
...nation's high schools have long been a favorite hunting ground for the military. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, at an age when possibilities seem boundless but money often is not, graduating seniors are ideal candidates for recruitment into the armed services. With federally sponsored job-training and financial-aid programs virtually dismembered by the Reagan Administration, the military has sought to fill the void by stressing its willingness to outfit men and women for high-tech careers and provide aid for higher education. Says Captain George Karpinski, an Army recruiter in the Atlanta area: "Seventeen- and 18-year-olds...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
...doubt Baker will have better weeks. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there, and a Secretary of State can scarcely be expected to have mastered every corner of it in three weeks on the job. Up to now Baker has led a charmed official life. It may have taken a pair of striped pants for him to realize that even he puts his trousers on one leg at a time...