Payoffs and pitfalls of flagging kids 'at-risk' kids early on

More teachers are looking to detailed data to figure out which students are most likely to drop out of high school, long before the kids have even entered ninth grade. Though this flagging system can call attention to a need for additional help to a potential dropout, there may be concerns, like inaccurate predictions, or worse, lowered expectations. “What if what’s the cure for under- performance in middle school becomes a disease when they move on to college, because they’ve been told they can’t do it on their own?” Get the whole story, on Youth Radio.