Word: perkinses
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The Northeast has the highest rate of college binge drinking in the nation, says H. Wesley Perkins, a professor of sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Perkins says only a tenth of students at Northeastern colleges abstain from drinking, but Harvard students abstained at the national average of 20 percent.
"If Harvard is similar to the nation, it is actually lower than the rest of the Northeast," Perkins says.
And sometimes there's a noisy kind. At Marian Manor Elementary, one of the participating El Paso schools, a fifth of the teachers quit rather than follow the new plan, which required them to attend meetings in their free time and spend their weekends at workshops. But more often the...
But Perkins, his bosses and his teachers think it's worth enduring a little friction to hear stories of students like Rosemont fourth-grader Briana Hopkins. Though her mother dropped out of college after two years and her elder brother forsook higher education for a job as a maintenance worker...