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A 14 page paper examining methods by which communities and schools themselves can use available people, time, money, facility or energy resources in the local area to increase high school graduation rates in that area. The paper contains a literature review focusing on various prevention techniques and research, and describing the Junior Achievement and Dollywood Foundation programs. The paper provides six alternatives, all of which have value but only one of which can be chosen. The choice is for Junior Achievement, a program nearly a century old with proven results and a solid framework already in place. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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14 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSeduRedDrop.rtf
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has been said that virtually anything can be "proved" through the judicious use of statistics; state and national high school graduation rates not excepted. The official national high school
graduation rate is calculated using a much broader scale than only those students who enter high school. The official word through 2003 was that US graduation rates currently were
at an all-time high, with statements such as: "The states with the highest high school graduation rates were New Hampshire, Minnesota and Wyoming, all around 92 percent" (High School Graduation
Rates Reach All-Time High, 2004). This is in stark contrast to the graduation rates reported for and by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. A report dated 2005 and current through 2002 places graduation rates in Minnesota in the 80-89% range, New Hampshire and Wyoming in the 70-79% range (Bridgeland, DiIulio and
Morison, 2006; p. 1). The difference lies with the method of measurement. Government figures use either total state population (Shaul, 2002) or
base graduation rates on the number of those entering high school or in some high school grade. Many dropouts leave school long before high school, however, and so are
not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. Why
does it matter? Is it not so that there will simply be those who dropout regardless? Probably so, but keeping students in high school to ensure they graduate
is a worthwhile pursuit: High school dropouts, on average, earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates, and about $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates. Students
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