Graduation Gaps & Promotion Power There's a big push on dropout prevention going on in DC this week that isn't in the Chicago press yet that I've found. Here are some clips to tide you over:
U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula NYT
The adoption of a federal graduation formula would correct one of the most glaring weaknesses of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
'Crisis' graduation gap found between cities, suburbs USA Today
The likelihood that a ninth-grader in one of
the nation's biggest cities will clutch a diploma four years later
amounts to a coin toss — not much better than a 50-50 chance, new
research finds.Cross into the suburbs, and the odds improve dramatically.
Report: Urban students face rough road to graduation CNN
Seventeen
of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates
lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in
Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana and Cleveland, Ohio, according
to a report released Tuesday.
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