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Graduation Rates Rise

Washington Post THE NATION’S high school graduation rate rose from 72 percent to 75.5 percent between 2002 and 2009. The progress reflects intensive efforts by a number of states to develop and implement strategies to keep students from dropping out. And one key factor in prodding states to act was federal pressure — most notably, […]

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Rural ‘Dropout Factories’ Often Overshadowed

Education Week In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains here in the northwest corner of South Carolina, high schools’ attempts to curb student dropouts may not match what many people picture when they hear talk of the nation’s “dropout factories.” Yet one-fifth of the 2,000 high schools nationwide categorized that way by researchers at Johns […]

Brother's Keeper, Chris West, Point of View | Comments

How 9th-Grade Gridlock Keeps Boys out of College

The Chronicle of Higher Education | February 7, 2010 Colleges face a challenge to masculinity that bulging muscles, rumbling voices, and jacked-up pickup trucks won’t remedy. Despite the fact that men and women get equal salary bumps for earning a bachelor’s degree, far more women than men are getting the message. As a result, nearly […]

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Editorial: Dropout Factories

The New York Times | May 17, 2009 About one in five American students drops out of high school today, and there are some schools where students have only a 50-50 chance of getting a diploma. Hearings held last week before the House education committee suggest that Congress may be ready to tackle this problem. […]

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U.S. meeting its challenge on dropouts

Columbia Daily Tribune | February 17, 2009 Good news is rare these days. Home foreclosures, a credit crunch and rising joblessness have sent ripples of fear through the U.S. economy. Youth unemployment is approaching levels seen during the Great Depression. The nation could use a ray of hope, and progress is being made on one […]

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Volunteering to get tomorrow’s dropouts on track

Boston Globe | September 9, 2008 MILLIONS OF American students are back in high school, and before the year is done more than 1.1 million will drop out. In many of the nation’s cities and low-wealth rural districts, 40 to 60 percent of entering freshman will not graduate. The suburbs are no longer immune. Retired […]

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A plan to fix ‘dropout factories’

The Christian Science Monitor | November 23, 2007 More students will stay if school is harder, safer, and more relevant. Many communities across the nation have just received alarming news – one or more of their high schools fit the profile of a “dropout factory.” That means two decades after the seminal report, “A Nation […]

Nettie Legters, Point of View | Comments

Invest in reclaiming troubled high schools

Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2007 News from the U.S. Department of Education that high school seniors in 2005 scored significantly lower in reading than their counterparts in 1992 has produced a fresh round of hand-wringing about the nation’s 14,900 public high schools. There’s a lot to worry about: by some calculations, barely more than […]

Nettie Legters, Point of View, Robert Balfanz | Comments

Making High Expectations Real in All Our High Schools

Baltimore Examiner | January 18, 2007 There is little disagreement about what we want from our public high schools. We want them to graduate all their students prepared for success in college, careers, and civic life. In schools where this is happening, students are engaged, come to school everyday, and try hard to succeed. They […]

Brother's Keeper, Nettie Legters, Point of View, Robert Balfanz | Comments

The Graduation Rate Crisis We Know and What Can be Done About It

Education Week Commentary | July 12, 2006 The debate over how best to measure the nation’s Graduation Rate is important. We need to know who graduates and who does not. Yet in the midst of questions about measurement and data quality we must not lose sight of what lies plainly before us and is loudly […]

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Point of View // Browsing posts in Point of View

Graduation Rates Rise

Rural ‘Dropout Factories’ Often Overshadowed

How 9th-Grade Gridlock Keeps Boys out of College

Editorial: Dropout Factories

U.S. meeting its challenge on dropouts

Volunteering to get tomorrow’s dropouts on track

A plan to fix ‘dropout factories’

Invest in reclaiming troubled high schools

Making High Expectations Real in All Our High Schools

The Graduation Rate Crisis We Know and What Can be Done About It

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