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The Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) addresses literacy and includes a focus on high school students. This research brief summarizes student and teacher outcomes, lessons learned, and other findings from a recent evaluation of the Alabama Reading Initiative at the secondary school level.
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Cambridge, Mass., October 9, 2007 — When they’re not involved with after-school sports or part-time jobs, what do some of today’s most-ambitious high school students do with their spare time? They invent potential breakthrough technologies, from position-indicating radio beacons for commercial fishing vessels, to robotic coconut tree climbers, to gauging power potential via wind-sensing balloons.
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Nationwide the overall graduation rate for the class of 2001 was 68 percent, with nearly one-third of all public high school students failing to graduate. (Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?, Urban Institute, 2004)
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BENNINGTON — Kyle Elithorpe, a high school student from Shaftsbury, used to have to walk across logs to cross the brook in his backyard. If the logs were washed downstream by spring floods, he would have to wade across.
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The power of peer pressure was underscored by the findings of an informal 2003 survey of high school students participating in the seat belt safety curriculum, conducted by Volkswagen. "Uncool" was the primary reason given by teens for not buckling up more often.
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