dropouts

• “Jobless rate for recent high school dropouts is 55.1 percent, compared with 35.0 percent for high school graduates not enrolled in college.”

  The Huffington Post: Mike Green: NFTE: Injecting Entrepreneurship into Inner City Education (VIDEO)

• “If we eliminate the high-school dropouts from the unemployed number and the "normal" base of unemployement (4 – 5% are ALWAYS unemployed), then the 10% rate is not so bad.”

  CNN Poll: Weak economic numbers dovetail with public perception

• “In other words, taking in more dropouts is a short-sighted method of boosting recruitment numbers.”

  GOP Debate–Hardly Any Mention Of Immigration

• “We have a creationist nutcase who ran the board that drew up the criteria for teaching biology (Thank Someone that the lege rejected him when Goodhair tried to appoint him chairman of the board looking into social sciences.), we have a certified group of nutcases trying to do a George Orwell on history, we lead the nation in dropouts, our schools are severely underfunded (except for the football teams) and it goes on and on and on.”

  Think Progress » Gov. Perry Bemoans ‘Federal Takeover’ Of Education, But His State’s Takeover Of Textbooks Is Totally Fine

• “This would appear to be reinfored by the fact that it's an older Klein, and as such is equipped with rear-entry horizontal dropouts, which is not nearly as sordid as it sounds and makes it ripe for fixed-gear conversion.”

  Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks

• “Ms. Kondracke calls the dropouts "our next class of nonperforming assets.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The High School Dropout's Economic Ripple Effect

• “Despite the boom, high-school dropouts -- in other words, the working poor -- saw their wages fall 5 percent during the 1990s, partly because of a greater supply of cheap labor.”

  Newsweek: Crossing The Next Frontier

• “The manual also tells us that high school dropouts, which is the next stage after truancy, are two and a half times more likely to be on welfare than high school graduates.”

  Press Briefing By Secretary Richard Riley

• “The personnel -- in the first place, the registration figures; the initial matriculation was 10,418 peasant girls; additional registrations: 2,255; total: 10,673 less the so-called school dropouts, that is to say, those who left school for one reason or another.”

  GRADUATION-MACARENCO PEDAGOGIC INSTITUTE

• “Other reasons Aussies are unhappy with their telcos are call dropouts (18 per cent), poor value for money (17 per cent) and substandard customer service (16 per cent).”

  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories

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