Whatever Happened to The Class of 2005?

Then she graduated from Cardozo High School and arrived at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where she bombed the placement tests so badly that she had to take remedial English and math. She failed the makeup math course twice before passing it. Low grades overall put her on academic probation. Finally, mid-sophomore year, she was forced to withdraw. Chappell sometimes thinks back to the Cardozo math teacher who, instead of assigning algebra homework, would have students clip photos of motorcycles from magazines and do other projects unrelated to math. "I thought it was strange and weird," Chappell said, but he did not complain because the class was "an easy A." To examine the fate of one graduating class of D.C. high school students is to find multiple stories like Chappell's -- stories that illustrate how a struggling urban schothe system, such as a reliable dropout rate or a way to track how students have fared after leaving. system often fails to shepherd its students and set them on a promising path to adulthood.

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source http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601165.html
by V. Dion Haynes and Aruna Jain