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September 2010
Not an expense — it's an investment
"Supporting at risk kids is not an expense," says Mark Thiessen, director of instructional services for the High School Completion Program in Barrhead, Albert, told The Barrhead Leader. "It’s an investment."
"I am obsessed with zero dropouts"
At Wisconsin's Menomonie High School, principal David Munoz has a three-school strategy for keeping students in school.
An oil-slicked slope: Why government programs that herd dropouts toward a GED are cutting students short
It would be easy to forget that anything else has happened in Louisiana over the past few months. But even as the nation’s attention has been transfixed by the enormous environmental and economic disaster caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, life has gone on in the Pelican State.
Does reducing the dropout rate mean accepting more violence?
Could the fight against dropouts lead to more fights on campus?
A new report by Philadelphia's School Reform Commission suggests that schools reexamine zero-tolerance policies toward violence in order to keep more students in school.
"I knew then that I had messed up"
A recent article by Larry Miller of The Philadelphia Tribune, should be required reading for anyone considering dropping out of high school.
A little taste:
Oakland's heartbreaking choice: Robbing Peter to save Paul
Advocates of a before- and after-school child care program in Oakland, Calif., have won another reprieve: The district's child care programs will stay up and running through December with $2.1 million in unspent funds from last school year.
After that? No one is certain.
Is Texas hiding some of its dropouts behind a homeschooling charade?
Is Texas hiding some of its dropouts behind a homeschooling charade?
That's what some in the Lonestar State want to know after they noticed a nearly 25 percent hike in the number of students in home education students from 2007 to 2008.
New dropout recovery charter: It's all about giving people traction
When officials at Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana took a look around their workforce, what did they see?
Dropouts — and lots of them.
Now, building on a social business strategy that has always been about helping people help themselves, the Goodwill has opened a charter school intended for dropouts and likely dropouts.
Another round of school reform: Is is all just "puffery"?
"Even if George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind program had been phenomenally successful (it wasn't), many thousands of children would have been left behind," writes Washington Post economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson.
Now the Obama administration is pushing a new round of school reform — and Samuelson isn't impressed.
Want funding for new programs? Prove it works.
When Texas state Sen. Florence Shapiro asked state auditors to tell her which programs designed to help struggling, low-income students worked and which didn't, she was shocked by the answer.
Because there wasn't one.