Of Camden's 26 schools, 23 fall in the bottom 5% statewide in performance measures, and less than half of its students graduate high school in four years, according to the state.

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So tonight, I call on every State to require that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn eighteen.

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As noted above, U.S. 4th graders do fairly well in mathematics and science, but by the time they graduate from high school, U.S. students are nowhere near being "first in the world" in either subject.

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And while most high school students in America give a handful of speeches by the time they graduate, a student at this school might give as many as 200.

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Right now, 21 states require students to stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18 -- 21 states.

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At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.

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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.

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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high-school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.

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Our students must have 21st-century classrooms and graduate from high school prepared for college or the workplace in a knowledge-based economy.

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