What I Know

over a million of the students who enter ninth grade each fall fail to graduate with their peers four years later. in fact, about seven thousand students drop out every school day. perhaps this statistic was acceptable fifty years ago, but the era in which as school dropout could earn a living wage has ended in the united states.dropouts significantly diminish their chances to secure a good job and a promising future.Moreover,Not only do the idividuals themselves stuffer.but each class of dropouts is responsible for substantial finacial and social costs to the communities,state and country and which they live. the dropout problem is far worse than statistics indicate. many states and districts simply do not count those students who fail to recieve diplomas as dropouts. even th e hardest- hit urban districts repot dropouts rates of only 5-10 percent. dropouts in america can make an enormous different in reducing the shamefully high level of school dropouts in communities across the country and make it dar more likely that young students will graduate from highschool and go on to the college. schools communtities parents and students alike can benefit from the promising models and concrete steps suggested here, and unlock the american dream for literally millions of the nations youth the news media and others often quote high school dropout rates as an indication of the success of failure of american schools.however the rates as an indication of the success of failure of american schools.however the rates the rates quotes may diifer signigicantly from time to time or from one publication to another.why is this? what is the true dropout rate? The answer is not as cleas as one might want there are different definitions of what it means to graduate from highschool and they are wide differences in who is counted as a dropout. in addition, there are a number of ways the student dropout rate can be calculated.