Topic: John Bridgeland
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Back to school: Are we leaving gifted students behind?
Gifted students in US public schools can be overlooked and unappreciated. Parents, looking for better options, have begun to find some.
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Fewer US schools qualify as 'dropout factories'
'Dropout factories,' schools that graduate 60 percent or less of their students, fell to 1,634 in 2009, down from 2,007 in 2002, says a new report. Attention on the dropout problem has led to improvement, analysts say.
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Key to stemming high-school dropouts: parents
Many parents of students in low-performing schools say they're not kept informed, a new report finds.
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The next generation of willing and ready volunteers: baby boomers
Enlisting even a fraction of them to volunteer would be a boon for the US.
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Nonprofits launch effort on 9/11 to boost volunteerism
The campaign hopes to increase the ranks of American volunteers from 61 million to 100 million by 2020.
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Letters to the Editor
Readers write about freedom of the student press and how to engage teens with learning.
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The key to keeping teens in school
Service learning tackles high dropout rates and civic disengagement.
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