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...Boston-based consulting firm, to dig deep into its graduation data. The resulting 64-page report, released last October, enabled the nation's largest school district to discern how many kids it was losing, which ones and when. Just as important, it showed what was working to salvage high-risk kids like Maisonet and Garcia...
...biggest surprises in the midst of this enormous crisis were the small bright spots. The study showed that a number of existing programs were remarkably effective in propelling dead-end students toward a diploma. Transfer schools--small, personalized high schools specially designed for kids who have fallen seriously behind--had a 56% graduation rate, compared with 19% for such high-risk kids at ordinary high schools, and some transfer schools were graduating nearly 70%. Another program, Young Adult Borough Centers (YABCs), which operates in the late afternoon and evening for students 17 or older, was enabling about 40% of these...
...rules requiring divisions to report to the CCO have been strengthened. Siemens businesses may no longer use a bank outside a vendor's home country to pay the supplier. At Kleinfeld's request, Hershman dispatched four teams to scrutinize Siemens operations in what the CEO calls high-risk countries...
Declining to comment on specific HUPD security measures, Catalano wrote that the meeting also addressed preventative measures universities could take to identify high-risk students...
...most effective way for a woman to “take back the night” is to take control of her sexual behavior. This ranges from personal safety measures (like being sensible about drinking) to avoiding high-risk situations in which intentions are not made clear (so often, these scenarios are instances of common sense gone askew). Only when she has taken this responsibility will she be in a position to reflect clearly on how such sexual issues affect...