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Cutting dropout rates for the poor

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Cutting dropout rates for the poor by Hans G. Despain By Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA 8-18-08 Our children will be returning to school at the end of the month. In nine high schools in the Pioneer Valley, students are returning to "dropout factories." Across the nation one in 10 high schools are dubbed "dropout factories." In Springfield and Holyoke it is 100 percent of public/charter high schools. High school dropouts, much like teen pregnancy, are a serious social problem. Dropouts increase our unemployment numbers and poverty rates, especially in urban areas such as Holyoke and Springfield. Dropouts lower human capital skills, and hence diminish our economic competitiveness. Dropouts are more likely to participate in drug distribution, crime, and violence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).