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…. Universities claim that their athletes are amateurs who are attending college for academic achievement and play sports in their free time. This is an impossible task for anybody. Higher education has entered the arena of big business with its athletic programs…

…rates for high school dropouts is three times higher than poverty rates for high school graduates leaving many people struggling to survive in a tight job market where the average salary is six thousand nine hundred and forty seven dollars less than…

…high. According to the Encarta Encyclopedia article on Native Americans, Native Americans in public schools have the highest dropout rate of any other ethnic/racial minority in the country. The suicide rate among Native Americans is also much higher than…

…227. Under the premise that bilingual education had not relieved high dropout rates and low English literacy of many immigrant children in last 20 years, Proposition 227 advocated a new way of education for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) children…

…-age students’ consumption rates, intoxication levels, drinking attitudes or drinking problems. A similar study was conducted among college students in the State University System of Florida to examine their behavior before and after an increase…

…in the College here at the University of Chicago. College is a typically American institution that has no equivalent either in France or in most other European countries. Let me illustrate the originality of the college concept by some examples. As the reader…

…After watching 60 Minutes this past Sunday I got to thinking about that age-old subject as to whether college athletes should be paid funds in addition to just their sports scholarship…

…<Tab/>In 2002, a statewide reading proficiency test was given to Fourth Grade students in Ohio. Cleveland's The Plain Dealer reported that scores statewide varied greatly by race and ethnicity. White students had a passing rate of 51…

…of this community every week and why? What's been the biggest change in the nature of the community in the past decade? What's the high school dropout rate and the percentage of graduates who go on to college? What legends or stories do old-timers tell? How old…

…of 3 when the focus is limited to Hispanics. 1 out of 8 whites in the same age category are not enrolled in school (Undereducation in America, 45-48). Russell noted that minorities have an illiteracy rate of 2 times the white percentage (The Color of Crime…