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Direct linkLewis, Anne C. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In this article, the author discusses the discrepancy in high school dropout rates throughout the U.S. and in national studies because of different measures of the dropout rate. Many states began to use a common dropout definition developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Not included among the 37 states using the NCES…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
