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• in Technorati Women
  Can Mandarin Save a Failing Georgia School?
  A failing Macon, Georgia school district mandates Mandarin language lessons to stave off a staggering 50% dropout rate.
  by alicarnold / on Oct 1, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dropout”

 

• Going to college is worth it even if you drop out

  
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  For people who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, higher education is overwhelmingly a smart investment. But what about students who drop out?  As it turns out, less than 60 percent of Americans actually complete a B.A. within six years of starting. Do they reap a benefit?     Last week, the Hamilton Project at ...
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• 8 Things You Did Not Know About Edward Snowden’s Past (PHOTOS)

  
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  Edward Snowden, ex-CIA agent who provided the top secret documents to some news organizations like regarding the existence of a data-mining program codenamed PRISM is considered as a hero for some and a traitor for others. The leaks have exposed some really important facts and realities about U.S. secret surveillance ...
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• Kanye Rocks The Stage With New YEEZUS Songs At Governors Ball–Has Some Words For The Crowd Again + Juicy J Had Miley Cyrus TWERKING On Stage

  
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  Mr. West closed out the Governors Ball last night at Randalls Island in New York.  And even through the mud and damp weather, Yeezy caused an uproar with a energetic performance...including a few new tracks.  Check it inside, plus Miley Cyrus twerking it out with Juicy J .... Its Yeezus world and were all ...
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• South Sudan program means fewer girls quit school

  
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  Officials in Yambio county in South Sudan said Monday they are pushing to take their "Send all Girl Children to School" program nationwide after a local campaign to keep girls in school brought a sharp decline in the countys dropout rate.Roda Elisa Tata, the state’s deputy director of gender, equity and social ...
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• Dropouts are ‘recovered,’ lost again

  
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  One third to one half of dropouts return to their old high school for a second try, but few earn a diploma , reports E ducation Week . In 2008, Washoe County, Nevada (Reno) realized it was graduating a little more than half its students in four years; 18 high schools were dubbed “dropout factories.” In ...
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• Graduation Rates the Highest in Four Decades; Plenty of Work Still Remains

  
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  Four decades have passed since the nation’s high school graduation rate has been as high as it is this year, according to the latest edition of Education Week ’s esteemed Diplomas Count report . The report estimates that the nation’s overall high school graduation rate for the graduating class of 2013 is ...
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• Graduation rate nears 75%

  
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  The public school  graduation rate is nearing 75 percent , according to Education Week ‘s Diplomas Count 2013 .   It hasn’t been this high since 1973. While racial and ethnic achievement gaps are narrowing, Asian-Americans (81 percent) and whites (80 percent) do much better than Latinos (68 percent) and ...
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• An idea whose time has gone

  
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  Austerity was all the rage and still is in some circles, especially those that favor government by artificially created crisis, like the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling blackmail and the idiotic sequester. Here are several looks a why austerity in a weak economy is a bad idea and why more people are walking away from it. ...
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• Bummer: Globull Warming Theory Has Failed

  
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  Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, Weatherbell Analytics, has put together a long list of just how badly “climate change” theory has failed over at Icecap AGW theory has failed all tests, so alarmists return to the ‘consensus’ hoax Warming not ‘global’. It is shown in satellite data to be northern hemisphere only ...
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• From the Career Files: Is It Easier to Quit Law School After a Sex Change?

  
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  Mansfield J. Park weighs in on whether law students should stay in the game or quit while they’re ahead. Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook . Tags: 1Ls , Advice , ATL Career Center , Career Advice , Career Center , Career Files , Dropout , Grades ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Ad Was Hand-Designed By Kanye West

  
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  Here’s a hand-designed promo poster for Kanye’s College Dropout , taken from that period in 2004 before he bought his spaceship and flew past the sky. Posted because it’s Friday and staring in the rearview mirror seems to be an efficient time-wasting activity. And since it’s in the conversation, here’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free TAKS tutoring to help seniors graduate starts June 10

  
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  High school seniors who still need to pass one or two TAKS tests to graduate can get free tutoring this summer. The Fort Worth Can Academy is offering the tutoring to any student at any school that failed one or two portions of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills standardized test, preventing the from ...
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• Top 10 Richest Rappers in the World

  
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  Rappers are people who chats or talks freely, or sings in a fast motion as if knocking on a door. Rap is a form of poetry put to a beat. Rap is considered one of the most controversial genres of music. Some people are of the view that rap music does not make any sense, totally baseless and meaningless. While ...
  3 weeks ago

• ToDo ToDay: SWV! Janka Nabay! Memorial Day!

  
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  It’s been more than 20 years since New York R&B trio SWV dropped its huge debut,  It’s About Time .  Tragically, the group split in 1998, turning its attention to things like school and parenthood. But after years of silence, Coko, Lelee, and Taj reunited in 2005 and last year released  I Missed Us , ...
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• Getting Lippy with Sophia

  
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  Im not very good at verifying real FIRSTS but I do believe we have our first collaboration between a a global make-up brand and a shoe designer on a range of shoes (as opposed to a range of make-up products).  Do correct me if Im wrong but Ive been scratching my head trying to remember something of this special ilk. ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: America Holds Most College Degrees, but the Lead is Narrowing

  
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  New analysis on charter schools in Boston reveal that students tend to perform better on aptitude tests like the SAT, but the schools have higher than average high school dropout rates. Boston Globe The Christina School District in Delaware has decided not to participate in the state’s Race to the Top plan. ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Kanye, New Slaves, Kim, College Dropout, and Kill Bill

  
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  1. There are few movies I anticipated the way I anticipated Kill Bill Volume 2.  None perhaps. As far as sequels to movies I’d loved goes, I also was anxious to see The Dark Knight and The Matrix Reloaded. But with each of those, I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen and, most importantly, the ...
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• Good news: College enrollment is falling faster than we thought

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 127
  We should want more college graduates. But we should also want fewer students at colleges with high drop-out rates. During the Great Recession college enrollments went up.  Since 2012, college enrollment has gone down. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, Spring 2013 enrollments fell 2.3 percent from ...
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• The Dropout epidemic

  
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  Kristi Kane My daughter who is graduating from high school this month announced to me that many of her friends are not. Tonight my husband and I took our boys and their friends to a movie and saw one of our girls’ friends. She works at the theater. She had played junior varsity soccer with one of my girls and ran ...
  4 weeks ago

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