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Sen. Harkin

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New report: Dropout rates five times higher for poor students

by Nick Pandolfo October 19, 2011March 30, 2020

Sen. Tom Harkin’s ( D-Iowa) new proposal to reform No Child Left Behind is the latest attempt by policy makers to fix the country’s  “dropout factories,” identified in the bill as schools with lower than a 60-percent graduation rate. But a new report has found a silver lining amid the crisis: The number of dropouts is […]

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