High School Dropouts a Major Issue In U.S. Education System

by Gary Kopycinski on September 4, 2009

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By John A. Ostenburg

On any given day, 7,000 high school students will stop going to school — permanently. That number mounts to 1.2 million students who each year constitute a new graduating class of "dropouts."

In his book, Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation, former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise — also a former congressman and now the president of the Alliance for Excellent…