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Dropout prevention theater… or at least concerts

Apparently John Legend is going to be singing for Proctor & Gamble's "anti-dropout promotion" campaign. This PR effort is deja vu all over again, from this historian's perspective. There have been anti-dropout PR campaigns since World War I, sometimes government sponsored (as in WW1), sometimes public-private combinations (as in a summer 1963 campaign partly funded by a […]