Word: generality
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...dropout sample had a significantly higher percentage of divorced and deceased parents than the general undergraduate population...
...black students admitted to the 20 classes of 1950-1969, 76, or 28.7 per cent, had dropped out by the time of graduation. This figure is "significantly above" the general dropout rate of 24 per cent, Nicholi said, and "focusing merely on the American black dropouts, the percentage [30.3 per cent] is even more striking." (Only 16.7 per cent of African black students withdrew...
However, Nicholi said, although black students tend to drop out more often in general, they drop out less often for psychiatric disorders-the conflict is more likely to be environmental rather than personal...
...little to do with abilities or ambitions. Convinced that most slum kids are doomed to failure, some New York teachers tend to guarantee it. Instead of being encouraged to take academic courses aimed at college, such students are commonly shunted into low-level programs that lead to vocational and "general" diplomas. Standards can be scandalous: one girl got a B in English for pasting together a scrapbook of pictures to illustrate the meanings of words. The kids-and their potential employers-know that a general diploma is virtually meaningless. Substantial numbers of New York's black high school students...
Ultimately, Bowker hopes to attack poor education at its roots: the public schools. He thinks that the open-admissions policy is already encouraging more slum kids to try for college and refuse to settle for general diplomas. Even under C.U.N.Y.'s new policy, those entering four-year colleges must either have earned an 80% average or rank in the top half of their school classes. Bowker is also mindful that C.U.N.Y. supplies 60% of the city's schoolteachers and reasons that his new minority students will eventually raise the schools' low ratio (11%) of minority teachers. Moreover...