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.Earlier this year, I enrolled my son for Mandarin class. It was provided by the school for free and it was conducted for 2 hours every Friday. I thought it was a good idea for him to learn an additional language and initially he was pretty excited about it. The first few weeks, all he did when he came home from school was try to practice his new

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This from the Ashland Daily Independent: The real cost The entire state loses when teenager drops out of schoolBelieve it or not, high school dropout rates are among the most difficult numbers to accurately determine.That’s because the rates annually reported by individual schools and school districts show only a small percentage of students quitting school. But one gets a much different picture when comparisons are made in the number of students in a high school’s freshman class and the number of graduating seniors four years later. Those numbers show that as many as 30 percent of the students in a freshman class fail to complete high school.A 2006 report by the Southern Regional Education Board found that a higher percentage of Kentucky teenagers are dropping out of school than their

So far the Bush administration's intrusion into state education has been less than ideal. NCLB is long on muscle and short on funding.But if the feds are going to intrude - I can't think of a better way than by creating nationally standardized definitions for calculating certain pieces of key data. (Backstory)U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula Moving to sweep away the tangle of inaccurate state data that has obscured the severity of the nation’s high school dropout crisis, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will require all states to use one federal formula to calculate graduation and dropout rates, Bush administration officials said on Monday.The requirement would be one of the most far-reaching regulatory actions taken by any education secretary, exper

Last night, Hillary Clinton gave Senator Obama a big jab by winning the Texas and Ohio primaries. The wins were essential for Senator Clinton in order to continue to run and competitive race. Clinton was expect to win Ohio due to the blue-collar workers being a large percentage of the Democratic base. Despite Senator Clinton [...]

I'm a high school dropout. That's a very hard thing for me to admit. I was always really good at school. I tested well, was in advanced placement classes. Once, for my birthday, I asked to go to summer school. I was never a teacher's pet, but usually the teacher's favourite. I studied a lot, got good grades and generally enjoyed going to school. But I hit a rough patch in high school. I was still reeling from my parent's divorce, I had quite a few abandonment issues, control issues and in my depression, I stopped attending classes. Stopping finishing school projects or doing my homework. In the fall of 2000, as I was starting my fourth year of high school, I was informed that because of my failing grades I was still considered a sophomore. It was easy for me to lie to my father.

The Butter Stick, like many other political news establishments, has requested an interview with former mayor of New York City, President of 9/11, and US Presidential candidate dropout Rudolph Giuliani for three months. Following his resignation from the race to the White House, Giuliani gladly accepted a short interview with the Butter Stick’s own Editor-in-Chief, [...]

There's something seriously missing from the Walton-Verona School District that you hear about at most high schools in Northern Kentucky and across the U.S.Dropouts.Since 1999, according to the district, there hasn't been a single one on the Walton-Verona High campus in Walton, thanks largely to an ambitious program targeting at-risk students that involves far more than just drop-out prevention.Today, the Kentucky School Boards Association will present to the district its PEAK Award at a 2 p.m. event at the high school's library.The award, short for Public Education Achieves in Kentucky, is given only to two public school districts each school year with programs that, according to the association Web site, "enhance student learning skills and, in doing so, promote the positive impact of public elementary and secondary education" in the commonwealth.The district's exemplary record at keeping students in class is due in large part to the Schools and Families Empowered Agent program.

This Editorial from the State-Journal.We're certain it came as a shock to parents to read that Franklin County High School is one of 28 high schools in Kentucky labeled a "dropout factory" by the Associated Press based on FCHS's failure to retain and graduate most of its entering freshmen....Over a three-year period " 2004-2006 " FCHS had a retention rate of only 60 percent, which translates into only 60 percent of entering freshmen went on to graduate four years later.That's simply shocking " and wholly unacceptable.Even given that some of those entering freshmen may have moved to other cities and schools in the period, when three out of 10 freshmen don't graduate, clearly action must be taken. And to its credit, the county school system has taken action to address this shocking statistic......But how did FCHS become a "dropout factory" in the first place while Western Hills and Frankfort High School did not? That's a question school board members and top administrators need to a

By Darren Swan Medill News Service - Chicago High school dropouts are at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease compared to their graduating counterparts -- regardless of income, physical activity and occupation, according to a Finnish study published Oct. 2 in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. If that correlation remains constant over time it could mean serious trouble for a large number of Chicago's youth who do not receive their high school diplomas. read more

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Not exactly breaking news, but it should have been noted before: Jim Gilmore dropped out of the GOP race. Gilmore has posted only the briefest of explanations on his website, indicating an inability to compete based on the scheduling and fundraising demands of the race. In fact, Gilmore had never had any appreciable impact on the polling numbers, and never really did much to distinguish himself from the other social conservatives in the bottom tier of the Republican race. Gilmore's departure will enable both of his hard-core supporters to gravitate towards a different social conservative in the second tier.

Half of Black Males Fail to Graduate With Their Class...Statistics show that more than 50 percent of black male students fail to graduate with their class each year. In some urban jurisdictions such as New York and Chicago, upwards of two-thirds of them leave high school before graduation, according to a study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.In Maryland, 46 percent of black male teenagers dropped out during the 2003-04 school year, compared with 22 percent of white males. In Virginia, 47 percent dropped out, compared with 27 percent of white male students, and in the District, the dropout rate for black males was 51 percent, compared with 5 percent of white males, the report said.Experts said the implications are stark: Dropouts struggle to find good jobs; they become teen fathers, get arrested and abuse drugs and alcohol at a much higher rate than that of their counterparts who graduate from high school.Alvin Thornton, a Howard University administrator and author of the

This from KDE:(FRANKFORT, Ky.) - The 19th Annual National Dropout Prevention Network conference will be held in Louisville at the Galt House Hotel on October 27-31. The conference theme is “Guiding ALL Students to the Winner's Circle.” The conference will offer more than 100 sessions focusing on secondary school design, truancy, differentiated learning and services for at-risk students. Keynote sessions will involve national experts providing information on effective dropout prevention strategies. Kentucky will host this prestigious conference for the first time, and educators are encouraged to take advantage of this special opportunity. Conference partners include the Kentucky Department of Education, Indiana Department of Education, Delaware Department of Education, Kentucky Center for School Safety, Simon Youth Foundation, Louisville Education & Employment Partnership, Fayette County Public Schools, New Albany-Floyd County Public Schools, West Kentucky Educational Cooperative,

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) -- Bill Gates attended to a bit of unfinished business Thursday.Gates, who dropped out of Harvard and co-founded Microsoft Corp. (Charts, Fortune 500) to become the world's richest person, stopped off at his former stomping grounds to collect an honorary law degree."We recognize the most illustrious member of the Harvard College class of 1977 never to have graduated from Harvard," said Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman. "It seems high time that his alma mater hand over the diploma.""I've been waiting for more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree," Gates, 51, told the crowd, which included his father, also named Bill."I'll be changing my job next year, and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume," said Gates in a reference to his plan to shift full time into philanthropy.This from CNNMoney.com.

The rates of students dropping out of high school are at a three-year low in the Fayette County Public Schools. And national tests designed to predict student success in high school and college show that Fayette County Public School students are outperforming the national and state averages.“Based on these results, if we were looking into a crystal ball I would say the work that we’ve been doing is beginning to pay off and we’re seeing progress,” said Fayette County Schools Superintendent Stu Silberman.”The release of data, which is the first round of results from the Commonwealth Accountability and Testing System to be made public by the Kentucky Department of Education, included the results of two tests taken for the first time last fall by students in Kentucky. Also included are the non-academic indicators of success used to determine how schools are doing, such as attendance rates, retention rates and high school drop out rates.The data was good news all around for Fayett

New Hampshire's Thoughts On News FromThe Land Of Ethanol And First CaucusesNo Wow FactorFormer Iowa governor Tom Vilsack's decision to abandon his White House bid drew disappointment here from his handful of early supporters as well as from those who feel the crowded early nominating calendar is squeezing out all but the richest candidates. But Vilsack's withdrawal doesn't seem to change much in the First Primary State.Curious what it would mean for Vilsack's home state, we checked in with a couple of pundits in the land of ethanol and the first caucuses.David Yepsen, veteran political columnist for the Des Moines Register, said it will have a modest effect on the Iowa caucuses. In 1992, Democrats downplayed Iowa because the state's Sen. Tom Harkin was in the field. But this year, "nobody was bypassing Iowa because Vilsack was in the race," Yepsen said. "The game was on, and Vilsack was running in third or fourth place in his own home state - which wasn't exactly making it any e