If the dropout rate were considered a public health issue, it would be branded an epidemic.
Conditions of compulsory education have improved considerably, and the dropout rate of school-age children has decreased to 6.5 percent.
The dropout rate decreased, teachers’ salaries increased and by 2008 the district had graduated from “acceptable” to “recognised”, according to the state’s education agency.
Reduce the high school dropout rate and empower parents to raise healthy and successful children by taking a greater role in their child's education at home and at school.
The study had a high dropout rate, with almost half of the participants (59 people) leaving the study before it finished, often because of side effects or because the treatment wasn't helping them.
The three states with the highest dropout rates — Texas, California and Florida — did not sign on to the agreement.
We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who begin college never finish.
Excessive drinking in Irish universities is contriButing to a high dropout rate, education officials said.
Experts say it's wrong to assume that if a school has an 80 percent graduation rate, its dropout rate is 20 percent - precisely because there's no single definition of what a dropout is.
And they did it for less than we spend today realizing only a fraction of the skyrocketing dropout rate we see there today.
Thanks to the high dropout rate of younger teachers, there will be plenty of job openings for teachers over the next 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And in Mexico, the Oportunidades program decreased dropout rates between the 6th and 7th grade by 9 percentage points.
This year the government announced that, by the end of 2007, fees would be entirely abolished at rural schools, given rising dropout rates in poorer areas.
By 1988, the school dropout rate had soared to 28.5%, compared with Japan's 5% and the Soviet Union's 2%.
It's not in the interest of schools to have an honest, accurate account of dropouts — not just because a high dropout rate makes a school look bad, but also because there's serious money at stake.
Over the past 50 years, we've seen a number of gigantic policies produce disappointing results — policies to reduce poverty, homelessness, dropout rates, single-parenting and drug addiction.
The enrollment rate for girl child reached 98.5%, and their dropout rate was 1.4%--a decline of 0.6 points of percentage over the rate in 1995.
Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates.
Other weaknesses include the study's small size and high dropout rate.
The state's high schools remain an educational backwater where dropout rates are rising.
The White House has insisted that Obama's address won't dip into policy and is geared primarily toward reducing the nation's troubling dropout rate.
It saw dropout rates fall by over 1.5 percentage points and students move ahead by about a year in reading and maths.
The default rate is so high because the dropout rate from for-profit colleges is so high; it probably exceeds 50 percent on average.
