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Category Archives: National
How to Identify a High School Dropout Factory
U.S. News and World Reports November 30, 2011 Written by Jason Koebler Many of America’s high school dropouts attend schools that graduate fewer than 60 percent of their students. Although the number of these “dropout factories” has decreased from 2,007 … Continue reading
Can Tyra Banks Get Kids To School? Seattle Says Yes
First aired on November 9, 2011 from KPLU For All Things Considered broadcast. Last month, Tyra Banks and the national Get Schooled Foundation visited 400 students in the Bronx in New York City. Banks is one of several celebrities who … Continue reading
Attendance Works Initiative
Attendance Works is a national and state initiative that promotes awareness of the important role that school attendance plays in achieving academic success. It aims to ensure that every school in every state not only tracks chronic absence data for … Continue reading
Video: Too Young To Fail: Just Listen To Me, Tavis Smiley
“I really didn’t like school until I came to Promise Academy,” says Jamill Jackson, a student at the Roberts Vaux Promise Academy in Philadelphia. “I really didn’t wake up until high school.” Watch this video of Jackson and his schoolmate … Continue reading
Video: Too Important To Fail, Tavis Smiley
Across America, less than 50% of young Black males will graduate from high school. Watch Tavis Smiley Reports: “Too Important to Fail” on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley.
