FACTS ABOUT DROPOUT
How prevalent is high school dropout?
“National studies estimate that 3.5 million to 6 million people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four are high school dropouts–meaning that they have not earned a high school diploma and are not now enrolled in high school”.
-Bloom, 2010, p. 90
-Bloom, 2010, p. 90
“Nationwide, only about two-thirds of students entering ninth grade graduate with a standard diploma four years later”.
-Stout and Christenson, 2009, p. 17
-Stout and Christenson, 2009, p. 17
The “highest rates of student dropout occur in large cities such as New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, and Philadelphia” where “dropout rates . . . sometimes exceed 50%”.
-Neild, Stoner-Eby, and Furstenberg, 2008, p. 543
-Neild, Stoner-Eby, and Furstenberg, 2008, p. 543
Students who have repeated a grade in school are “eleven times more likely to leave school early”.
-Stout & Christenson, 2009, p. 17
-Stout & Christenson, 2009, p. 17
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