Study Finds Fewer Dropouts and 'Dropout Factories'
"Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic"
Aggressive efforts to prevent students from dropping out contributed to a modest increase of 3.5 percentage points nationally in the high school graduation rate from 2001 to 2009, according to research presented last week at the Grad...
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