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Resources address the Dropout Rate
By Tobi Kibel Piatek | September 30, 2008
As new students begin the course this month, their first task is to consider the question: Who Drops Out and Why? These are some additional resources, ideas and information that will add value to the first lessons.
The rising dropout rate around the country is getting more attention – now considered, at least by the FOX News Channel, one of “the challenges facing the country in the 21st century.”
This article, Educators Alarmed by High Dropout Rates Among Teens is one of a series FOX news is airing on issues facing
One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities is an in depth report by the Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., “about high—and rising—high school dropout rates, some ways schools are trying to retain students, the limited—and diminishing—supported opportunities for dropouts to regain a footing in education and training, and the increasingly dire prospects for dropouts in today’s economy.”
Topics: Drop Out Rate, In The News, RESOURCES |
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
While looking for statistics of drop out rates in my district I did find that local news sources offered some of the only open information about the rates but still didn’t show the actual stats. I also don’t believe it is a “new” challenge but I think that it is something that we should be able to reduce with all of information and technology that we have at our fingertips and that is what makes it such a hot topic and why it is considered “one of the challenges facing the country in the 21st century” because unlike before it is now more preventable.