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Dropout Factories, continued

Submitted by Roanman on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 12:52

 

The following unfunny cartoon links (didn't want you to miss it) to an outstanding Associated Press interactive titled "Dropout Factories".

The interactive breaks down the country by state, and provides both a list of, and totals for the "dropout factories" within each individual state.

It also provides a discussion of the criteria from which the lists were developed.

You absolutely need to do this one, painful though it may be.

 

Dropout Factories

Submitted by Roanman on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 07:03

 

From todays Wall Street Journal, in a piece titled The NAACP's Unhealthy Tea Party Obsession, Jason Riley offers the following:

 

 
 
Click anywhere above to link to the entire article ................ think.
 
They've changed some stuff at the WSJ and sometimes you get it, sometimes you only get the tease, which is why I'm not linking there as much.
 
This one here is the good stuff and worth the effort.
 
With regards to that 2,000 of the nations high schools produce half of all the nations dropouts thing?
 
These here little gears here  links to a Department of Education press release wherein the above statistic is referenced.
 
Recommended.
 
 
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