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Download full textTinto, Vincent – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
Our personal and professional lives intersect: the story of how one young man dropped out of a doctoral program in physics to figure out what to do about the continuing problem of dropout in higher education.
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Graduate Students, Dropout Attitudes
Direct linkPrice, Hugh B. – Brookings Institution, 2007
This Opportunity 08 position paper advises that the next President of the United States should focus on lifting the achievement levels of our nation's schoolchildren. It recommends that the new President should mount a determined effort, together with states and local school districts, to boost the academic performance of low achievers by: (1)…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gains, School Districts
