By the Numbers: The Dropout Rate by Edutopia 12/06/2007
7,000: The number of students nationwide who drop out of school every day. Schools known as dropout factories produce more than half of our country's dropouts. 2,000 dropout factories produce almost three-fourths of African American students and two-thirds of Hispanic students who didn't finish school. Studies show that dropouts dim not only their own economic future but also that of their communities. The 1.2 million students who should have graduated with the class of '07 will cost the nation $329 billion in lost income over the course of their lifetimes. About two-thirds of all prisoners are high school dropouts. CommentsSat, 23 Feb 2008 19:17:24 Your last words say that educational reform needs to "a necessity demanded by the majority". The reason we are where we are today in education IS because that public education was enacted in the name of the common good or the majority. The education system is a monopoly run for the majority and in the name of the majority. Any current or future reform that is done under the same pretense will ultimately fail because the educational reform CANNOT come by the majority - it has to come by individuals. Government run schools must be abolished completely and market based education restored. Only when parents will have real choices about where to send their children to school will we have a proper educational reform. In essence, the market will decide what schools are deemed good and which aren't. That's real reform. When a school's survival will depend on the quality of its graduates then will we see true innovation in schools. Leave a Reply | Educational ReformThe purpose of this blog is to post issues, ideas, resources related to why and how so many children - especially marginized populations - are being left behind.         ArchivesDecember 2008 |
