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Facebook: 1. Invented by Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg (formerly of the Class of 2006). 2. You should definitely know what this...
...ninth grade - "I was tired of competing with Gilbert" - he didn't make the Ivy League, so he settled for the University of Rochester. His father once told him he'd never succeed in physics. "What he meant was, compared to Gilbert," recalls younger brother Morgan, a high school dropout who still earned four advanced degrees by the time he was 25 and is now a renowned litigator. (Read "Energy Secretary: Steven...
...also recently signed a deal with Scribd, an online startup founded and headed by a young Harvard duo: John R. “Trip” Adler '06 and Jared Friedman, a Harvard dropout who was a Computer Science concentrator in Cabot House. The deal would put nearly 1,000 of HUP’s books online, making them downloadable at costs determined...
...reason for these appeals to lasting unions is simple: on every single significant outcome related to short-term well-being and long-term success, children from intact, two-parent families outperform those from single-parent households. Longevity, drug abuse, school performance and dropout rates, teen pregnancy, criminal behavior and incarceration - if you can measure it, a sociologist has; and in all cases, the kids living with both parents drastically outperform the others...
...elsewhere in the United States, rural public education is failing its students, but perhaps less so. On the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, only a third of 12th-grade public-school students in rural areas scored at or above proficient, consistent with the national average. Rural dropout rates are higher than in the suburbs and lower than in cities.On one hand, the success of public education in any setting is largely the result of quantitative factors that influence schools across regions. Discrepancies in these values manifest themselves in educational inequalities and, over time, have contributed largely...