The Christian Science Monitor – Amanda Paulson
“The number of “dropout factory” high schools – those graduating 60 percent or less of their students – was 1,634 in 2009, according to the report, released by America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center. This is down from 1,746 in 2008, and from a high of 2,007 in 2002. ‘There are reasons for optimism,’ says John Bridgeland . . . “(more)