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COVER FTG ON HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS. 09:46:39:05 MS OF A SPEAKER ADDRESSING BLACK STUDENTS AT KELLY MILLER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ABOUT THE ESSENTIALS OF EDUCATION. CUTAWAYS OF THE STUDENTS. 10:36:01:10 EXTS OF THE SCHOOL. CI: EDUCATION: STUDENTS, HIGH SCHOOL.

Mike Makes His Mark

The Dropout - 1962 shows the loneliness and frustration that develop in Robert, who drops out of school and tries to find a job before he is qualified to compete in the highly competitive world of modern work. 02:29:13:26 Santa Monica High School baseball game; man thrown out at first base; 1960s audience of teens behind fence applauds. 02:30:18:01 CU neon sign of hot dog with words “Charcoal-Broiled” and sign beneath the neon sign for “The Hot Dog Show” hot dog stand, camera zooms out as man exits doors beneath sign. 02:31:06:15 VS young man at dinner table with father and mother; father gets upset throws napkin on table and walks out of dining room. 02:31:55:00 Two teenage couples holding hands running on a Southern California beach toward camera; LS young couple running on beach scares a flock of seagulls; teenage couple sits down on beach blanket together; MS young couple sitting on beach, Santa Monica pier in background. 02:33:50:21 Father with crew cut opens door and pokes head into teenage son’s room; father shakes son’s shoulder, boy doesn’t wake up, 8 mph street sign on wall above young man’s head; young man gets up, then lies back down putting his pillow over his head. 02:34:28:28 VS CU 1950s men with stern faces saying “no” and “I’m sorry”; extreme CU man’s mouth. 02:36:13:10 VS inside pool hall, down and out men smoking cigarettes playing pool; greasy unkempt young men, torn holes in t-shirt, older man smoking cigar. 02:36:48:03 MS young man leaning on pool stick, slowly turns head; two police officers grab the young man and violently force him onto the pool table and handcuff him; young man watches friend taken away then turns and hits his pool shot.

Beauty School Dropout

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Training of high school dropouts from poverty areas in Brooklyn Navy yard, New York. Students learn truck driving at the New York Transportation Training Center. A man starts up a film projector that shows an instructional film to students learning driving skills in a classroom. A students backs a vehicle in a narrow fenced area. A student backs a tractor trailer. Location: Brooklyn New York City USA. Date: September 5, 1967.

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A Soviet solution to school dropout rates includes vocational training and work programs for students highlighted in this montage of teenagers attending school who are taught a trade and work along with receiving more traditional schooling.

THE TEXAS EDUCATION COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES NEW ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS FOR THE STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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01:53 ""Plamondon School"" by Kathie Robertson. On Chicago's West Side, Principal Guadalupe Hamersma talks about the troubles facing low income urban schools. ""It's a mistake excusing ignorance because of poverty. I really feel that if you have high expectations and find ways to help kids meet those expectations, kids will achieve."" She also feels that these kids should not be concentrated in poor schools but instead should be integrated into schools in wealthier communities. ""I feel it's important for kids have to get out of their neighborhood because the resources are so limited."" 10:07 ""Sebastian & Molly"" by Dee Dee Halleck. Two kids sing parodies of children's songs that have been altered to feature the demise of teachers. Sebastian sings: ""On top of the chalkboard, all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug..."" Molly adds a tune dedicated to her teacher Miss Owens: ""Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, throw your teacher off the boat and listen to her scream!"" 18:54 Leon Lederman commentary by Ricki Katz. Lederman, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, speaks about the poor state of education in America. ""In the '60s we were making the best cars, the best machines, and then all of a sudden we weren't anymore. School systems around the world were getting better than us. Something happened to this country in the late '60s to do with the Vietnam War. It created a malaise in our students, it created a dropout mentality. I don't think you can blame it on one thing, but that was a sort of milestone, one from which we have never recovered. Our text books were watered down, we neglected our teachers' salaries. Right now we're spending more per capita per year than any other country - $380 billion a year on higher and lower education. We have to turn the education system around, but we have to 'leverage' money very carefully in order to fix it."" 29:24 Bill Ayers commentary by Jim Morrissette. Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former member of the radical group The Weather Underground, speaks about education. ""In many ways schools are very effective. They function as large sorting machines, sorting kids out along class, racial and gender lines. We complain but we never fix them. I want them to not train people to fit into hierarchies, I want them to train students to participate fully in a democratic society."" 31:18 ""Harbor College"" by Nancy Cain. In Los Angeles, Cain visits a ""college"" for grade school kids that teaches stock market history, finance and business. 34:50 Murray Bookchin commentary by Luana Plunkett. Writer / activist Bookchin speaks about the misconceptions people have about education. ""Education today is confusing the accumulation of information and data with the pursuit of wisdom. We are not becoming wiser, we are learning a lot of data that has no meaning, no relevance. Education should provoke, should stimulate the student to thinking. What we call education to day is, in my opinion, nonsense!"" 40:32 Bill Ayers commentary continued. ""Most teachers teach for the right reasons - they're altruistic, optimistic and they love kids, or they love the world, they love art, mathematics, or music enough that they want to share this with kids. Their motivation is transformation. But they go to colleges of education where they effectively ignore that or beat it out of them. So they become involved in structures which reward obedience, conformity and being a clerk. School systems are becoming enormous bureaucracies toppling under their own weight."" 44:13 ""William Wilson"" by WTTW. Wilson, a music teacher at Hubbard High School in Chicago, won a Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching. His philosophy: ""I never accept the word can't. I say 'erase that 'T''."" His students report on Wilson's unique teaching style. ""He treats everyone like his own child. So we have three parents: mother, father, and Mr. Wilson."" 47:18 ""Public Education: It's a Bull Market"" by Hobart Swan. This tape traces the history of business involvement in education. In April 1990, the California State Assembly made a historic recommendation allowing Channel One, a commercial news station, to broadcast in public school classrooms. If this recommendation becomes law, commercials for candy bars and potato chips will become part of daily curriculum. However, this may not necessarily be a new thing. Public school children have always watched industrial films produced by private companies. In years past, children learned about electricity from electrical companies, ecology from lumber companies, and nutrition from sugar companies. 55:54 More from Leon Lederman. ""TV is a tremendous force. It could do a lot of things. The typical scientist is portrayed as a weirdo stroking a cat and talking with an accent. TV owes an obligation both to entertain and to teach. We need he roes in science, we need good role models so kids can say this is not a nerd operation."

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

VS AT THE CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOL

Beauty School Dropout

A documentary about Project Breakthrough by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in Cooks County, Illinois. An African American child at a typewriter. The Director of Research and Statistics Division, Cook County Department of Public Aid Walter Hudson speaks about the development of a testing device that can monitor the progress of a child on ERE (Edison Responsive Environment) device. An African American child seated at a desk. View of a group of African American boys and girls running outside in a paved lot or playground area, and seated on a step of a housing building. Juan Tracey, an educator speaks about the cost of the project. The Director of the Project Breakthrough A. Louie Scott says that the cost of the project must be measured against the number of dropouts from school. Sister Marry Williams, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Project Breakthrough says that through this project they are saving a lot of money for the larger society. Director Walter Hudson labels illiteracy and poverty to be contagious for the society. Sister Williams says that this project aims at working with children having tremendous potential. Separate lockers for children at the school. Juan Tracey says that this project provides with basic things one needs to go to a school. Director Hudson says that this project makes the children adequate to enter the main stream of life in the United States. An African American woman with her child. The child spells out the word MOTHER and the woman kisses the child. Location: Chicago Illinois USA. Date: 1967.

Brooklyn, N.Y. [Truck Driving Training w Simulators]

TEEN BOY WALKING IN HALLWAY READING HIS YEARBOOK STOPS AT STAIRCASE, TALKING TO HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT WHO LOOKS SAD, LOST HIS JOB. SHOWS HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT HIS YEARBOOK. REMEMBERS HE WOULD BE GRADUATING TOO IF HE STAYED IN SCHOOL.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.