Keeping Overage Students in H.S. Proves Tough
The teenager walks into the empty classroom and crams his lanky frame into a desk. Three teachers, the high school psychologist, and the principal sit in a circle around him. This 17-year-old 10th grader knows he’s been summoned here because his classwork has been slipping.
What he doesn’t know is that he’s part of an expanding national effort to keep students like him—who are overage for their grades—from slipping away from school altogether. The creation of this Cleveland program five years ago reflects a growing national awareness that overage students are far more likely to drop out than those who progress with their peers.
“We want you to pass. We want you to do better,” says Karen Scebbi, the psychologist. “I believe...
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