Tag: Dropout Rate

  • Tweet City Heights: Nation’s Prison Pipeline, People Take Back Media

    By Megan Burks Giving Dropouts a Face and a Name This week, Twitter was full links to a National Public Radio series on the nation’s dropout crisis. According to NPR, 1 million students stop attending school each year, costing the nation at least $319 billion annually. The personal cost is steeper, contributing to a cycle…