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October 01, 2007

A Bleak Discovery about the U.S. High School Dropout Rate

The most widely used education data has been telling us that the national high school dropout rate is around 10 percent. But University of Minnesota sociology professor John Robert Warren has found that a competing, more accurate study reveals a much starker result: twenty-five percent of high school students aren't graduating.

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