1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories'. Montana ranked 31st.
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It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," http://hosted.ap.org/specials/intera ... tml?SITE=AP a high school where no more than 60% of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.
By Nancy Zuckerbrod, Associated Press
Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/educati ... ories_N.htm
Montana 2006 Summary: http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust/summ ... Montana.pdf
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Locating and Transforming the Low Performing High Schools Which Produce the Nation’s Dropouts
Robert Balfanz Center for Social Organization of Schools Johns Hopkins University
Full Presentation: http://www.all4ed.org/files/Balfanz.pdf
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Tacoma schools dispute dropout numbers
KRIS SHERMAN; The News Tribune
A report released Monday from Johns Hopkins University researchers categorized Tacoma’s five comprehensive high schools as “dropout factories” – schools where at least 40 percent of freshmen don’t make it to senior year.
But local school officials – backed up by statistics tallied by the state – dispute the conclusions of the study. The difference may stem from the way the national study estimated graduation rates and who Tacoma counts as a high school senior.
Full Story: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/l ... 191062.html
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