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Voices of the Dropout Nation: Dropout Factories Division

” You have to change the system in order to improve the school. [The now-shuttered] Evander Childs was part of a perfect system designed to graduate 50 percent of its students and drop out the rest.”

– John Thomases of the New York City Department of Education on what he learned about fixing dropout factories, at today’s Alliance for Excellent Education luncheon.

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