In U.S. high schools, too many empty seats.For those concerned about the state of leadership in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. , and who wonder where the next generation of leaders will come from, I can tell you it's not likely to emerge from the millions of high school dropouts we're setting loose in the land. The U.S. has one of the highest high school dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates in the industrial world, which can't be comforting news in the ferociously fe·ro·cious adj. 1. Extremely savage; fierce. See Synonyms at cruel. 2. Marked by unrelenting intensity; extreme: ferocious heat. competitive environment of an increasingly globalized economy. Dropouts, on average, earn $9,245 less per year than high school graduates; the poverty rate for families headed by dropouts is more than twice that for families headed by graduates; and dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed, less likely to vote, and more likely to be imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- . If we want to see a more creative and more effective approach to such crucial problems as war and peace, terror, employment, energy consumption, and so on, we'll need to rely on a much better-informed population than the U.S. has now.--Bob Herbert [7/21/05] |
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