Nova High School Dropout Research Paper

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Technology; such as computers are the best thing that has been created by mankind. At Nova High School, they began to use computer instruction in their three subjects. Soon after students began using it, the dropout rate declined. Every school board around the country should buy more computers and adopt more of computer instruction to every high school. First, the argument that the school dropout and the achievements of last year's graduating class results from the computer instruction taught at Nova High School. There are reasons why this could be true. For example, some students, such as I, learn better while using a computer. The achievements from the graduating class should have came that computer instruction class since that class was

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