Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100815:14:37:00
To all the staff of students who don't finish high school and we talked about eighth grade a lot as being a critical time. why is that? >> well, it's a transition ari period but we can look at the performance. my foundation, we have a summer empowerment program called the summer empowerment academy where we take specifically eighth graders that are going into ninth during that summer, and work with them. you can basically look at an eighth grader, look at their grade scores, if they're 2.0 or below it's almost a 90% predictor they will not make it through high school, they will drop out. it's ...
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