Yes, the nation’s dropout rate is a huge obstacle to President Obama’s goal to push the United States to the top of the international education rankings by 2020, but who’s not graduating? Until the administration acknowledges it has a gender problem (and not just a race and income problem) we’ll never turn the corner on achieving that goal.
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