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Editorial - Dropout Factories
The New York Times, May 18, 2009
The New York Times, May 8, 2009
Obama wants to turn around 5,000 failing schools
Associated Press, May 11, 2009
Libby Quaid
Meeting the Dropout Challenge
Columbia Daily Tribune, February 17, 2009
Robert Balfanz and John Bridgeland
Volunteering to Get Tomorrow's Dropouts on Track
Boston Globe, September 9, 2008
Robert Balfanz and Michael Brown
A plan to fix "dropout factories"
Christian Science Monitor, November 23, 2007
Robert Balfanz and John Bridgeland
Making High Expectations Real in All Our High Schools (PDF)
Baltimore Examiner, January 18, 2007
Nettie Legters and Robert Balfanz
The Graduation Rate Crisis We Know and What Can be Done About It (PDF)
Education Week Commentary July 12, 2006
Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters
Invest in reclaiming troubled high schools
Baltimore Sun, March 14, 2007
Thomas Toch and Nettie Legters
The Lost City
Jacksonville Times-Union March 2009
Part One Missing School: Settling for Less
Part Two Missing Students: Only the Lonely
Part Three Missing Students: Students Speak Out
Part Four Missing Students: Too Few Soldiers
Part Five Missing Students: The City's Shame
