WASHINGTON - An educational study in the United States by the Alliance for Excellent Education says about 7,000 American students drop out of high school every school day. Under-performing high schools also produce 58 percent of all African-American dropouts. A special high school in Washington is trying to reduce those numbers by keeping young African Americans in school and on a career path.
Jakor Porter is like many other American teenagers.
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Amtrak is modernizing the train ticket starting this summer.
Final rules issued on governments new strategy to attract students and recent grads of every generation.
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Department of Defense expands menu of apps that aim to help military personnel deal with social situations and health issues.
Included in the 2005 federal transportation bill was $100 million for four regions to invest in bike and pedestrian infrastructure to determine, essentially, if they build it, will they bike and ride more and drive less. The final results are in.
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Starting next year, New York will become the first state to require unpaid work from lawyers seeking to practice here, a move intended to help people who cannot afford legal services.
Developer.data.gov is the latest in a growing list of communities designed to make practical use of the government's datasets.
Robert Dewey, who was convicted in 1996 for the rape and murder of Jacie Taylor, is likely to walk free on Monday after DNA testing exonerated him.
Two state troopers who were deployed in Iraq are using their counterinsurgency training for a program to combat drug and gang violence back home in Springfield, Mass.
A unique, first-of-its kind program to help low-income inventors in the Denver region pursue patents was announced Wednesday in Denver by David Kappos, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Bill Fulton and Chris Haller look at Denver's recent efforts to involve its residents in helping to solve next years anticipated $94 million budget gap.
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Bruce Longs job is to save lives, 160 characters at a time. Long and other staffers at the crisis line have been working with text services for only five months. Its the latest outreach in the Veterans Affairs Departments suicide prevention efforts, and Long said it has been a significant change from the traditional phone hotline services he has been involved with for years.
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The excitement of school dismissal is different in Chicagos crime-ridden neighborhoods. Students arent thinking about whats for dinner, if theyll pass a math test or whether to talk to the cute girl in class. Some are just thinking about the best way to get home without running into gang-bangers, witnessing a drug deal, getting robbed or shot. Thats what led Chicago Public Schools to team up with the CTA in getting Bus Tracker displays inside the exits of 36 high schools. Around ...
Travelers who believe they've been targeted for their religion or race will be able to file complaints from their iPhones.
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