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Joy Resmovits

America On Track To Make High School Graduation Goals For First Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.25.2013 | Politics
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Despite the constantly gloomy rhetoric about the state of America's schools, U.S. students are steadily improving by at least one metric -- for the fi...

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Joy Resmovits

High School Grad Rate Hits Record High

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.01.2013 | Teen
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More U.S. high school students than ever are graduating on time, according to new information released by the research arm of the U.S. Education Depar...

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WATCH LIVE: Sept. 22 Is American Graduate Day

Posted 09.22.2012 | Home
Read More: American Graduation, Graduation, High School Graduation, College Graduation, Dropout Crisis, Dropout Rate, American Graduate Day, School Graduation, Video, Home News

From American Graduate: September 22, 2012 is American Graduate Day, a multi- platform event featuring a live television broadcast, radio playlist ...

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Anthonia Akitunde

Thinking About Going Back To School? Read This First

HuffingtonPost.com | Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 08.17.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Education, Teen College BTS, Continued Education, Should I Go Back to School, Going Back to School, Dropout Rate, Dropout, College Dropouts, Drop Out, Afford College, Drop Out Rate, College Drop Out, Fifty News

Geraldine Johnson, 64, is unemployed after paying $60,000 for a master's degree. She lives on $1,034 in Social Security and in December will begin paying $400 of that toward her student loans.

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Gene Demby

Obama's New Initiative For Black Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 07.25.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Dropout Rate, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, Education, White House Initiative on HBCUs, Educational Attainment, Bv-Politics, Achievement Gap, Black Voices News

Tonight President Obama is set to announce a new initiative meant to help more African American students finish high school and graduate from college...

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Joy Resmovits

NEA's Dennis Van Roekel: We Can't Accept Unqualified Teachers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.02.2012 | Home
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After a few years of tremendous membership loss, the nation's largest teachers' union is reinventing itself. "Instead of waiting for someone to tel...

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Joy Resmovits

Chronic Absenteeism Hurts Millions Of Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2012 | Home
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Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky. Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from th...

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Increasing the Graduation Rate Quickly, Cheaply and For Real

David Bloomfield | Posted 04.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Ged, New York State Education Department, Graduation Rates, Dropout Rate, High School Dropouts, Home News
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A relatively quick, cheap, and instructionally legitimate change to state law could raise graduation rates without lowering standards.

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Chicago Charter Schools: 1 In 10 Students Transfer Out

Catalyst Chicago | By Sarah Karp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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It's almost 8:21 a.m. at Gary Comer College Prep Charter, nearly a minute after the morning bell. On this sunny day, Principal James Troupis stands in...

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Can Glee Club Reduce Dropout Rates?

Mother Jones | Zina Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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It's 8 a.m., and Mission High School choir director Steven Hankle is about to start class. Soul and hip-hop tunes play softly in the background while ...

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Dropouts Down But Minority Communities Still At Stark Disadvantage

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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"Dropout factory" high schools may be on the decline in United States but for minority communities, the good news may not apply. A report released Tue...

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