[AAACE-NLA] The Lost Children--Civil Rights Project, HGSE

[maureen hoyt]

Andrea-  you sent this:
"Nationally, just two thirds of all students--and only half of all
blacks and Latinos--who enter ninth grade actually graduate with regular
diplomas four years later."

Ref:  Gary Orfield, Civil Rights Project, Harvard Graduate School of
Education


Are there studies on how many young people never enter high school? I
have quite a few who come to our classes who only went to eighth grade,
or even less.
 
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Colleagues:

In today's Times (available free online for 24 hours)--

"When Bob Dylan came first on the scene it was very possible for a young
man or young woman with energy and a dream and a high school diploma (or
less) to actually build a decent life.  That's pretty much over."

and

"Nationally, just two thirds of all students--and only half of all
blacks and Latinos--who enter ninth grade actually graduate with regular
diplomas four years later."

Ref:  Gary Orfield, Civil Rights Project, Harvard Graduate School of
Education

Andrea



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