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Event Will Highlight Rising High School Dropout Rate
in response to reader comment: Principle of unintended consequences

Submitted by al kaye, Feb 22, 2008 15:54

the students are not just unprepared, they also make no or little effort to learn anything.


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Derek Varsalona 

Feb 19, 2008 19:00

here is the best recommendation- thousands of students from middle schools are not sent to academic high schools, but to... [MORE]

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Feb 19, 2008 11:22

My bother just retired from an 80% minority California HS that made the decision a few years ago to require... [MORE]

Jim Lydon 

Feb 22, 2008 09:57

the students are not just unprepared, they also make no or little effort to learn anything.

al kaye 

Feb 22, 2008 15:54

The mayor and his insidious chancellor have succeeded in fooling the undiscerning! Remember what happened in Huck Finn when the... [MORE]

mike romano 

Feb 19, 2008 11:12

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