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• in Politics
  Job One for Liberals is to Send More Americans to College
  The path to liberalization is simple – make college affordable and available to everyone.
  by jimmyzuma / on Dec 26, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dropouts”

 

• Cars & consortiums: long-term & short-term moves to boost school attendance

  
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  June 13, 2013: The Los Angeles Unified School District is handing out two new cars (Chevy Sonics for seniors) and five iPads to elementary students -- rewards for 12-13 perfect attendance. (There were 357 seniors who didnt miss a day at school; the two winners were selected via a drawing.) At left, a Chevy Sonic; the ...
  5 days ago

• No High School Diploma? No Problem

  
  Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life — Authority: 108
  Its been really interesting reading some of the MSM pieces about Edward Snowden as the smear machine gets rolling. A regular item is how he was a high school dropout. Its meant as a diss but I view it as a positive accomplishment. Ive think Ive written about my departure...
  6 days ago

• College Is Worth It Even If You Don’t Graduate, Says Study

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 729
  Perspective students on their way to college know that they are going to school to get a degree and earn more money; but a new study shows that even students who drop out of college still make more than those who have no college experience. On average, college graduates make about $500,000 more during their lifetimes ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Famous People Who Didn’t Graduate High School

  
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  Famous People Who Didn’t Graduate High School – Dropping out high school isn’t usually touted as a good idea, however from time to time there are people who are able to go on and be successful– even without a diploma. Famous People Who Didn’t Graduate High School Richard Branson, the billionaire, ...
  1 week ago

• Willful Defiance Suspensions Vary Widely Among San Diego County Districts

  
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  Click once to see enlarged image. Willful Defiance Suspensions In San Diego County School Districts, 2011-12 I agree with the California Assembly. We need to lower the drop out rate because we need kids to grow up to be productive citizens. They wont learn that on the streets. Willful Defiance Suspensions Vary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Illegal mom may increase drop-out rate to third generation

  
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  June 3, 2013: A large-scale survey of young, second-generation Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles (funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, researched by Frank Bean and Susan Brown (UC Irvine) and Penn States Mark Leach, James Bachmeier and Jennifer Van Hook, and published as part of the US2010 Project at Brown ...
  2 weeks ago

• Watts parents too quick on the trigger? LA Times calls for clearer legislation

  
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  June 3, 2013: Using what the Los Angeles Times calls a "promising, but sloppily written, law," parents in the Los Angeles Unified School Districts (LAUSD) Weigand Avenue Elementary School (Watts) have, possibly unwittingly, pulled the parent trigger and rid themselves of ... an effective, respected, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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

• Getting our youth back to work

  
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  by Andreas Schleicher Deputy Director and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECDs Secretary-General If there’s one lesson we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that we cannot simply bail ourselves out of a crisis, we cannot solely stimulate ourselves out of a crisis and we cannot just ...
  3 weeks ago

• AB 1152: keeping Cal-SAFE safe from flexed categoricals in Assbly ApproComm today

  
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  UPDATE, May 24, 2013: AB 1152, to exempt Cal-SAFE from categorical "flexing" under the proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) of the Brown 13-14 budget [see backstory below], is up before the Assembly Appropriations Committee today, where it will either be passed on to the full Assembly or shelved. February 27, ...
  3 weeks ago

• New ECMI Kosovo project on enhancing education for vulnerable and disadvantaged children

  
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  ECMI Kosovo has signed a contract for a project to reduce the number of out-of-school children for six Kosovo municipalities. Source: European Centre for Minority Issues Kosovo ’s April Newsletter A new project of ECMI Kosovo will aim at reducing the number of school drop-outs in six Kosovo municipalities. ...
  4 weeks ago

• OC supes learn 1/3 of foster youth walk away from group homes

  
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  May 20, 2013: Almost one-third of the 100 foster children living in group homes in Orange County "walk away" each month, according to Michael Riley, director of the countys Social Services Agency, in a report to the Orange County Board of Supervisors. While Supervisor John Moorlach was unfazed, saying, "Having a ...
  4 weeks ago

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