Where are we now?
An Update to the Community on
the progress of Project U-Turn,
November 2007.
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Low Resolution (1.3MB)
Unfulfilled Promise: The
Dimensions and Characteristics
of Philadelphia's Drop-out
Crisis, 2000-2005 is a
comprehensive research report by
Ruth Curran Neild and Robert Balfanz
of the Center for Social
Organization of Schools at the Johns
Hopkins University. The report
analyzes data from the Kids
Integrated Data System (KIDS),
housed at the Cartographic Modeling
Lab at the University of
Pennsylvania, and provides a
detailed picture of when and why
Philadelphia’s young people drop out
of high school.
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Full Report or
Executive Summary
Turning it Around: A
Collective Effort to Understand
and Resolve Philadelphia's
Drop-out Crisis is a
companion volume that offers a
set of broad-based
recommendations and maps out
specific actions to be taken by
key public and private agencies,
parents and young people to
accomplish project goals.
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Full
Report or
4 page summary, updated March 08
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