How are the kids? Forget the 'reformers' and statistics that clutter today's education beat. Reporters need to look inside the classroom.(State Of The Beat)

From: Columbia Journalism Review | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

"We have no dropouts!" Robert Kimball declared in a sarcastic email to his boss, the principal of Houston's Sharpstown High School, in November 2002. Sharpstown had just reported that none of its 1,650 students had left without graduating or transferring elsewhere, and the assistant principal could not believe the math. "Amazing! We go from 1,000 freshmen to less than 300 seniors with no dropouts."

Kimball soon learned that Sharpstown's strange statistics were no anomaly. Two other inner-city Houston high schools that ordinarily lost about half their students by graduation ...

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