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Article: JOHNS HOPKINS STUDY SHOWS DETAILED PICTURE OF DROPOUT CRISIS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 20, 2006
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Johns Hopkins University issued the following news release:
Dropping out of high school is predictable and preventable, especially in large city public schools that produce many of the nation's dropouts, according to a new study by education researchers at The Johns Hopkins University's Center for Social Organization of Schools.
In Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia's Dropout Crisis, 2000-05, Ruth Curran Neild and Robert Balfanz draw on extensive data from Philadelphia schools and social service agencies not only to establish the problem but also to provide insight on how cities across the country can solve their dropout problem.
"This report can help ...