By Annie Murphy Paul @anniemurphypaul

An article in Education Week sparked a controversy recently when Thomas C. West, an evaluation specialist at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, announced that he had devised a tracking formula that can predict, with startling accuracy, which students will drop out of high school—as early as their second semester of first grade.

via Your First-Grader is Going to Be A High School Drop Out | TIME.com.