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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, many stop-outs do better academically than their less-seasoned classmates, if only because they are a year older. One Illinois State psychology major, Doug Poag, dropped out to work on a prison-reform project. He has now joined the Bloomington, Ill., police force and started moonlighting at the university to prepare himself for law school. Students who stop out and return to class "are in school because they want to be, not because their daddy wants a doctor in the family," says Ward Dennis, associate dean of Columbia's School of General Studies. As Psychiatrist Lawrence Kubie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: As College Starts, There Go the Stop-Outs | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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