Houston Tackles School Dropout Problems
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Officials at Texas' largest school district, which once miscounted nearly 3,000 dropouts, hope that by taking a personal interest in at-risk students and dividing them into smaller classes, they will stay in school.
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The largest school board in Canada plans to launch a black-focused school to tackle the problem of high dropout rates.
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HOUSTON -- It should come as no surprise that two teams which refused to fade away when they were on the verge of falling out of the regular-season race would not go quietly in the playoffs, either.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush on Saturday  touted his plan to boost aid for high school students amid  criticism from his Democratic opponent who said he has undercut  efforts to fix failing schools.
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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Teachers are urged to adopt new strategies to help children who fall behind in English and maths.
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The city's public school district will use a grant funded through the No Child Left Behind Act to help students become healthier and fight obesity.
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Quantitative measures, the controversial linchpin of the Bush administration&#39;s approach to improving education, appear to have exposed performance problems with a favored alternative to public schools: the charter school.
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By Chastity Pratt, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 10--Traditional high school didn't fit LaManda Brown's lifestyle after she had her son last year. So Brown, 18, enrolled in a new school in the Considine Recreation Center in Detroit that targets high-school dropouts.   The 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Since hurricane Katrina, the city has been determined to reform one of the nation's worst school districts.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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Hoping to prevent the loss of children, a few schools have begun monitoring student movements using technology similar to that used to track livestock and retail shipments.
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Schools aren't sure why enrollment is down. Some experts cite rising fears among illegal immigrants.
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At issue is SeattleÂs plan to overcome the effects of the cityÂs segregated housing patterns in its 10 high schools.
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A week after Harvard abandoned early admissions as a program that puts low-income students at a disadvantage, Princeton has followed suit.
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The problems facing refugee schoolchildren in Britain and how schools in Birmingham have been working with parent partnerships to help children settle in to school.
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HOUSTON -- Their squalid stay in an African orphanage behind them, seven Texas children are readjusting to life in America, shopping for school clothes, eating pizza and watching Harry Potter movies.