DROPOUT PREVENTION APPROACHES ELICIT SOME SKEPTICISM IN MICHIGAN

The Lansing State Journal has cast a skeptical eye on a deal to bring a private educational service provider into one local school in an attempt to keep would-be dropouts enrolled and engaged. "For a district like Lansing, where two out of three high schools had graduation rates lower than the state average in 2008, experimentation is a necessity," the Journal's editorial board writes. "But as any high-school science student can tell you, good experiments have to have good observation and honest reporting of results. Experiments succeed, and they fail."