2005 Dropout Libraries Presentation 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2018
In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.” Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 3, 2018
But after about half-an-hour, the lecture stops and Dobrin presents his students with a menu of options. “Is Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six — all at a time when the region desperately needs more college grads. Dobrin asks.
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