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- Social and Emotional Learning
... + mental health + motivation + dropouts + cooperative learning + brain research + ...
7/7/2008
- By the Numbers: Dropout Data
... factories produce more than half of our country's dropouts. 2,000 dropout factories produce almost three-fourths of African ... students who didn't finish school. Studies show that dropouts dim not only their own economic future but also that of their ...
Article - - 4/8/2008
- The Dropouts: When Kids Are Challenged and Encouraged, Great Things Happen
... ever said that to them before. I am proud of these "dropouts"! Good job guys! Good job guys! I am so proud of you as a ... regarding technology, disengaged learners and potential dropouts. The two students Ron described are not unlike many others who are ...
Spiral Notebook - Ron Smith - 4/10/2008
- Feedback: Big Schools, Big Cities
... excellent work. Mark Crummey Drop in on Dropouts I just finished reading a very grim report, the most depressing I ...
Article - - 6/9/2008
- NCLB 2.0, Part 1: George Miller and Reauthorization
... up? How can NCLB help the problem of high school dropouts in this country? It's quite enormous. By some reports, 40 percent of ... 6. How can NCLB help the problem of high school dropouts in this country? It's quite enormous. By some reports, 40 percent of ...
3/26/2008
- Dropout Diplomacy: A Boston Initiative Reaches Out to Truants
... Project, which is designed to track down high school dropouts and convince them to return. Point men on the project are outreach ... self-described "street researchers." Both are former dropouts who later returned to finish their education, and both are blunt and ...
Article - - 4/8/2008
- Las Vegas: Improving Graduation
deck: In a town where dropouts earn $50,000 per year parking cars, Las Vegas schools have devised ... Las Vegas: Improving Graduation In a town where dropouts earn $50,000 per year parking cars, Las Vegas schools have devised ...
Media - 4/8/2008
- A Statewide Approach: Helping Kids Stay in School
Troubled by the recent death of his father and bored with high school, Mark Nordby seriously considered dropping out at the end of his sophomore year. Instead, he took a chance and enrolled in the Wisconsin Youth Apprenticeship Program . "I always le ...
Article - - 5/12/2008
- Searching for Steven Spielberg: Well, Not Exactly
... how Ron's digital video course changed the lives of The Dropouts: When Kids Are Challenged and Encouraged, Great Things Happen . ...
Spiral Notebook - Ron Smith - 7/1/2008
- Hardship Greater for Girl Dropouts
"A report released this week by the National Women’s Law Center finds that an alarming number of girls like Mariah Phillips and Jade Edwards are facing severe economic hardship because they quit school -- with Arizona having the second-highest female dr ...
11/7/2007
