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...tapped: Since leaving the State Dept. in 2004, Gen. Powell and his wife Alma founded America's Promise Alliance, a group dedicated to improving the well-being of the country's young people. The non-profit has been especially strong on finding a means to combat the country's dropout crisis. Plus, Powell made a high-profile endorsement of Obama in the final weeks of the campaign...
...Once implemented, the new battery of tests is expected to guarantee higher competency in core school subjects, lower dropout rates and free up millions of education dollars. Students may take the exams - which are modeled on existing AP or International Baccalaureate tests - as many times as they need to pass. Or those who want to go to a prestigious university may stay and finish the final two years, taking a second, more difficult set of exams senior year. "We want students who are ready to be able to move on to their higher education," says Lyonel Tracy, New Hampshire...
Work Force is a nationally lauded high school dropout prevention program based in Cambridge that offers low-income teens mentoring, college preparation, and scholarships. In 2008, it served 130 students, leading to a high school graduation rate of 100 percent and a college matriculation rate of 92 percent. But that wasn’t enough to save it from the chopping block. The program just had its state earmark of $150,000 cut in half, and this is only one of a series of cuts to vital social services in the Cambridge community. Budget decreases for Work Force have been...
Work Force—originally formulated as a high school dropout prevention program—is a youth development program for low-income students in grades eight through 12 and offers college preparation and scholarships. In 2008, the program served over 130 students and achieved a 100 percent graduation rate and a 92 percent college matriculation rate...
...only a few years old, but the state's graduation rate appears to be rising. The new call for federal data will help other states determine whether a program like Georgia's would be a good use of their resources. Plus, more accurate information may ultimately make the dropout problem "seem more manageable," Kondracke says. "We can't move forward until we can measure where...