Crucial Year Can Be Precipice or Springboard

Jay Matthews:

"Ninth grade in America's public schools has become an increasingly severe hurdle to student progress," said Walter Haney, a Boston College education professor who has done much research on why more ninth-graders are being held back and eventually dropping out.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 12, 2005 9:56 PM
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