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<text id=91TT1888>
<title>
Aug. 26, 1991: American Notes:Education
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 23
American Notes
EDUCATION
Back to Square One
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<p> In many American cities, young black men are a group in
critical condition, growing up into lives of poverty, crime and
early death. In an attempt to stem that tide, the board of
education in Detroit--where black males have a 54% dropout
rate--decided to establish three all-male public schools. Open
to all races but focused chiefly on black students, they were
to feature high academic standards, strict discipline and a
stress on African-American history.
</p>
<p> But the Detroit scheme hit a roadblock just weeks before
school started, when the A.C.L.U. and the NOW Legal Defense and
Education Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Detroit mother
with three daughters. The suit argued that the plan would deny
girls the right to an equal education. Not incidentally, black
girls in Detroit have a 45% dropout rate. Last week U.S.
District Judge George E. Woods agreed and ordered school
officials to come up with a program to accommodate both sexes.
"The young adolescent black male is most definitely an
endangered species in this community," said Woods. "But the
board has not shown the presence of girls would harm the
learning of boys."
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