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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Surviving Ninth Grade
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When I first started covering education in 1997, all the talk was about first and second grade, teaching kids to read. Then, middle school. We all wrote stories about “the muddle in the middle.”
Now, educators are talking about ninth grade. How to make sure more kids make it to tenth and graduate with a diploma. “If you can get a student to tenth grade, they’re probably going to make it,” a school official is quoted as saying in today’s story.
What can be done to help ninth-graders?
