“When 30 percent of our ninth-graders (ultimately) fail to finish high-school with a diploma, we are dealing with a crisis that has frightening implications for our… future.”
—Christopher Swanson, Director of the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center

Based on 1500 classroom observations, in 85 percent of the classrooms observed, fewer than half of the students were paying attention. —Mike Schmoker (2006)

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