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…Microsoft: THE COMPANY The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed…

…. The National Center for Education Statistics' "Dropout Rate in the United States: shows students of low income families are six times more likely than those of higher income families to drop out of school. Education is seen to be the great panacea by which…

…anymore. Title IX, prohibits universities from suspending or expelling pregnant women in high schools from doing educational programs and activities. The U.X department of Education cites that "from 1980 to 1990, dropout rates for pregnant students declined 30…

…for all the cost of raising a child. The poverty rate for high-school dropouts is 12 times the rate for college graduates, so there is a lot of low-skilled labour in America. This doesn't help the situation in America today; with increased competition from…

…and personal reasons. Studies have shown that high school dropout rates are associated with low-income families, male (unless the female is pregnant), ethnic minorities and urban environments. In addition, high school dropouts have more disciplinary problems, lower…

…to the yearlong training required to qualify as a Navy SEAL. This training camp is located on San Diego's Coronado Island during training there is a seventy percent dropout rate. This is completely due to the six months of hard-core training that they must endure. Some…

…efficiently. This is time that could be used to teach subjects such as music or art that are proven to decrease dropout rates. How often do you hear about character education decreasing dropout rates? I do realize that in some cases it would be a good idea…

…until age 16, there are major differences in schools and they appear to be drawn along lines of race and social class. Locally here in California it was found that there was only a 1.5% dropout rate in Palos Verdes, which is a wealthy community that has very…

…project. Chronic truancy went down from six hundred and forty-six to only sixty-seven. The dropout rate is at twenty point six percent. The graduation rate went up from twenty-five percent to fifty-five point one percent. Out of fourteen hundred students, only…

…, a difference of -22. Burke County as a whole has a 47.1% dropout rate which is close to 10 percentage points below that of the states 56.9%. So in the aspect of SAT scores the education system in and around Valdese should be improved compared to state statistics…