Education
Preventing high school dropouts can start in 4th grade
Missourian, New York, NY – August 12, 2009
Not everyone earns their diploma. One out of every four students fails to graduate from high school in four years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But here’s a shocker from Lynne Strathman, director of Lydia Urban Academy in Rockford, Ill., a small faith-based alternative program for dropouts. Strathman says the one thing that she consistently finds is that “the last time these students felt successful was the fourth grade.”
