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Title: All the Advantages, And Nothing to Show for It (Portland, Oregon)
Author : Betsy Hammond
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Reference,Books,Politics & Current Events,
Pages : * pages
Size : 61 KB

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If any big-city school district should have a handle on its high school dropout problem, it would surely be Portland, Oregon. Compact and bike friendly, this darling of urban planners draws middle-and upper-middle-income professionals to live inside its city limits. And they do something that their counterparts in Detroit or Washington, D.C., or Los Angeles rarely consider: they send their children to public schools. In a school district that enrolls 47,000 students, only 43 percent are poor (in Chicago, 85 percent are) and a majority are white (in Philadelphia, 13 percent are). White and middle-class teens are far less likely to drop out of high school than their minority and low-income peers.