High School experiment curbs dropout rate. Talent Development High School is on the cutting edge of a decade-long experiment to stem the nation’s dropout crisis.

Public School 428 looks out, in all four directions, onto streets of unoccupied, abandoned and burned-out row houses, their window casings charred, their roofs collapsed.

By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY

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