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Why are so many kids quitting school?

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A self-portrait Beaulieu drew on her computer using a pen tablet won a “gold key” award at a scholastic art fair in Boston last year. Other works by Beaulieu have been exhibited elsewhere. But even art class at Lowell High frustrated Beaulieu. “I don’t need terminology and assignments,” she says. “Why do I have to write a three-page paper about art? Art should be something you enjoy. You have to express yourself ... School was just hopeless for me.”

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“Bored” students are, in truth, probably students with poor reading skills. Most dropouts lack “academic skill,” not “academic ability.” -- Jay Greene, endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas