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Held back, but not helped

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Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said. Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

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“I would say there are maybe five organizations like ours across the country,” said Valeria Do Vale, lead coordinator for the Student Immigration Movement, which was started in Boston in 2005 by immigrant students attending high school with hopes of attending college. Zelaya is now in her second year of college courses.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

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Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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