Lemieux, who quit school in Montreal after the tenth grade, never learned how to read balance sheets.

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And by the time they reached tenth grade, they had slipped off the map twenty-fourth place internationally.

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Just five years ago, only half of the 9th graders at our high school went on to tenth grade.

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She loves lacrosse, but she also knows that if she works hard enough she will have a college commitment by the end of the tenth grade before taking a single standardized test and with less than two years of high school grades.

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But inside, 20 ninth- and tenth-grade students and seven educators are creating a new educational paradigm.

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Assigned to Berman for tenth-grade English, I took a seat one September morning alongside sixteen or seventeen other boys.

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In 1990 less than one-tenth of all students who entered first grade went on to graduate from sixth.

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