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How ‘early warning systems’ are keeping kids in school

How ‘early warning systems’ are keeping kids in school

Washington Post blog The Answer Sheet The recent news that only 58 percent of Washington D.C. ...

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Graduation Rates Rise

Graduation Rates Rise

Washington Post THE NATION’S high school graduation rate rose from 72 percent to 75.5 percent between ...

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Rural ‘Dropout Factories’ Often Overshadowed

Rural ‘Dropout Factories’ Often Overshadowed

Education Week In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains here in the northwest corner of South ...

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How 9th-Grade Gridlock Keeps Boys out of College

How 9th-Grade Gridlock Keeps Boys out of College

The Chronicle of Higher Education | February 7, 2010 Colleges face a challenge to masculinity that ...

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Editorial: Dropout Factories

Editorial: Dropout Factories

The New York Times | May 17, 2009 About one in five American students drops out ...

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U.S. meeting its challenge on dropouts

U.S. meeting its challenge on dropouts

Columbia Daily Tribune | February 17, 2009 Good news is rare these days. Home foreclosures, a ...

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Volunteering to get tomorrow’s dropouts on track

Volunteering to get tomorrow’s dropouts on track

Boston Globe | September 9, 2008 MILLIONS OF American students are back in high school, and ...

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A plan to fix ‘dropout factories’

A plan to fix ‘dropout factories’

The Christian Science Monitor | November 23, 2007 More students will stay if school is harder, ...

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Invest in reclaiming troubled high schools

Invest in reclaiming troubled high schools

Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2007 News from the U.S. Department of Education that high school ...

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