Dropouts

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January 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's high school graduation rate is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of…
September 24, 2012
OPINION - Every day more than 7,000 students across the country drop out of school and over 1,000,000 students will…
January 25, 2012
VIDEO - According to a new report prepared for the White House by the Center For Benefit Cost Studies and…
June 8, 2011
VIDEO - Philadelphia students redefined themselves - no longer accepting the term dropout by referring to themselves as push-outs...
April 20, 2011
The charity named for the rapper Kanye West that was intended to reduce high school dropout rates has closed mysteriously...
April 6, 2011
OPINION - The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's…
March 2, 2011
TELEMUNDO - Arne Duncan believes that these figures could be key in figuring out the reasons behind the high drop-out…
December 8, 2010
The statewide statistics highlight a pervasive achievement gap in test scores and graduation rates that persists despite focused efforts to…
October 20, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - Over the last three years, black males have improved their graduation rate and decreased their dropout rate…
April 6, 2010
VIDEO - Only 11 percent of students in the first generation of their families to graduate college successfully complete school,…
March 1, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says 1.2 million students drop out of school each year, and only about 70…