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Carter, Michael; House, David L., II – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
In January 1998, the Montgomery County (Ohio) commissioners created the Montgomery County Out-of-School Youth Task Force to identify why 22% of high school students were dropping out. The task force concluded the dropout epidemic was having devastating effects on the local economy. In addition to the obvious problem of local employers having…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Out of School Youth