America Beyond 2001 | A Vision of Declining Education

News items: a 50 percent dropout rate plagues many high schools, one out of every five high school students carries a firearm, knife, or club; only 10 percent of students who finish grammar school in one urban city can read and write, and 40 percent cannot even read their graduation certificate of attendance; major ethnic population shifts in some districts have caused massive communication problems between students and teachers; and a poll finds 56 percent of the residents of Los Angeles and Orange counties in California believe the overall state of their school system is poor, and 40...

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