High School Drop Out Epidemic


	High School Drop Out Epidemic

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/853b5b3d-9440-4f36-89be-f16f59dc089c/BAC447EC-C39D-44F9-BAC4-39138AE61ADD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A"><NYT_HEADLINE _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0">
States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High School
</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A"><P>JACKSON, Miss. — When it comes to high school graduation rates, Mississippi keeps two sets of books.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A"><P>The state schools superintendent, Hank Bounds, says the lower rate is more accurate and uses it in a campaign to combat a dropout crisis. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A"><P>Like Mississippi, many states use an inflated graduation rate for federal reporting requirements under the <A title="More articles about the No Child Left Behind Act." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/no_child_left_behind_act/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">No Child Left Behind</A> law and a different one at home. As a result, researchers say, federal figures  obscure a dropout epidemic so severe that only about 70 percent of the one million American students who start ninth grade each year graduate four years later.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A"><P>The No Child law is also at fault. The law set ambitious  goals, enforced through sanctions, to make every student proficient in math and reading. But it established no national school completion goals. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?em&ex=1206244800&en=41ef2372a3728605&ei=5087%0A"><P>In an interview, Ms. Spellings said she might require states to calculate their graduation rate according to one federal formula.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BAC447EC-C39D-44F9-BAC4-39138AE61ADD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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