The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools
(2008)
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Every school day, almost seven thousand students become dropouts. Annually, that adds up to about 1.2 million students who will not graduate from high school with their peers as scheduled.
This issue brief from The Alliance for Excellent Education includes statistics on which students aren't graduating, graduation rates by state, and estimated loss of lifetime income for these dropouts.
