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Dropout Meter

Nearly 1.23 million members of the public high school class of 2008 will fail to graduate on time with a regular diploma. That amounts to a loss of 6,829 students from the U.S. graduation pipeline per day.

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Research indicates 2,000 of America's 17,000 high schools produce approximately half of the nation's dropouts.

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