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Princiotta, Daniel; Reyna, Ryan – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2009
As governors confront the worst state fiscal environment in the past 25 years, long-term prospects for strong economic growth are hampered by an immense underlying problem: the high school dropout crisis. At least one student in five drops out of school, and nearly 5 million 18- to 24-year-olds lack a high school diploma. Annually, dropouts cost…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, High Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Goodlad, John I.; Mantle-Bromley, Corinne; Goodlad, Stephen John – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2004
The founders of the United States envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe there must be universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education there must be democracy. But since the founding of the country, the study and practice of…
Descriptors: Democracy, Altruism, Democratic Values, Access to Education