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Direct linkGewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2009
For big urban districts, it can be slippery work to catch and hold students who are falling off track at a point that derails too many graduations: the transition from 8th to 9th grade. This article reports that the Chicago school district is putting a suite of new data reports into the hands of those who teach and counsel its 30,000 freshmen this…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Grade 9, Grade 8, High School Freshmen
