One might ask, how many of those PhDs are minority Americans? Not many. The Misanthropes haven't even begun to address the educational needs of the people of this country. Without a significantly more impressive 'brain trust' and the 'reason' to establish one, the USA's interests will be outsourced as well and we will be a 'slave nation' to a country such as China in more ways than just 'average minimum wage labor.' You might ask yourself come election day 2008, whom is going to lead this nation when they can't even graduate from high school? Where is an American economy if there are no leaders to take us there?
US high school dropout rate: high, but how high? (click title above)
By Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – The national dropout rate is notoriously hard to pin down, and the latest effort to do so - showing alarmingly low graduation rates in some parts of America - is likely to intensify the statistics wars.
Nearly 1 in 3 high school students in the Class of 2006 will not graduate this year, the Editorial Projects in Education (EDE) Research Center reported Tuesday.
This are current the statistics upto 2004....
High School Dropout Rates (click here)
...Dropout rates of young people ages 16 to 24 in the civilian, non-institutionalized population gradually declined between 1972 and 2004, from 15 percent to a low of 10 percent in 2003, where the rate remained in 2004. (See Table 2) In this indicator, dropouts are those who are not enrolled in and have not completed high school. In 1972, the dropout rate among non-Hispanic blacks was 21 percent, and, among non-Hispanic whites, it was 12 percent. These rates declined substantially for each group between 1992 and 2004, narrowing the gap between the two groups (though the rate for blacks remains twice that of whites). The dropout rate for non-Hispanic black youth reached an historic low of 11 percent in 2001. (See Figure 1) This drop is at least in part related to the dramatic increases in incarceration rates among black high school dropouts since 1980, which takes them out of the civilian non-institutionalized population on which these estimates are based.7 Rates among Hispanic youth have declined in last few years from 30 percent in 1998 to 24 percent in 2004....
