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\n�Is there aught a remedy for this neglect of rural life? Let us, at least, yield ourselves to the gratifications of a beautiful dream that there is. In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.�
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\nNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) � It�s an education bombshell.
\nNearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University�s community college system.
\nThe number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
\nWhen they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn�t make the grade.
\nThey had to re-learn basic skills � reading, writing and math � first before they could begin college courses.
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\n They are part of a disturbing statistic.
\nOfficials told CBS 2′s Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University�s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work.
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