Dropouts: An F for Education

Introduction

Recent concern about dropouts has come not from an increase in the dropout rate, but from the growing need for skilled, educated workers. As the number of children “at risk” for educational failure increases, educators are shifting their focus from trying to figure out what's wrong with the dropouts to analyzing what's wrong with the nation's public schools.

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