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**Facts**

Why is it that non-white high school students have a high percentage of dropping out? By: Mapa Mohulamu. **Facts**. the dropout rate among non-Hispanic blacks was 21 percent, 12 percent among non-Hispanic whites, and 34 percent for Hispanic youth

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**Facts**

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  1. Why is it that non-white high school students have a high percentage of dropping out?By: Mapa Mohulamu

  2. **Facts** • the dropout rate among non-Hispanic blacks was 21 percent, 12 percent among non-Hispanic whites, and 34 percent for Hispanic youth • Black and Hispanic youth are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to drop out of high school. • Asian youth, with a dropout rate of 3 percent, had the lowest dropout rate among all racial and ethnic groups in 2005.

  3. **Stakeholders** • High school students -current -future • Teachers and Professors • Parents • Family’s • Board of education • Schools • Government • everyone

  4. **Why** • Reasons why students drop out: • -unlikely to have the minimum skills and credentials necessary to function in today's increasingly complex society and technological workplace. • Thirty-five percent said that “failing in school” was a major factor for dropping out • Not Motivated

  5. **More** • Nearly half (47 percent) said a major reason for dropping out was that classes were not interesting. • Many students gave personal reasons for leaving school. A third (32 percent) said they had to get a job and make money; 26 percent said they became a parent; and 22 percent said they had to care for a family member. • -Has no life/no goals

  6. **Data** • Shows which ethnicity has dropped out and those enrolled.

  7. **An Open Letter to the American People** There is a high school dropout epidemic in America. Each year, almost one third of all public high school students – and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans – fail to graduate from public high school with their class. Many of these students abandon school with less than two years to complete their high school education. This tragic cycle has not substantially improved during the past few decades when education reform has been high on the public agenda. During this time, the public has been almost entirely unaware of the severity of the dropout problem due to inaccurate data. The consequences remain tragic. The decision to drop out is a dangerous one for the student. Dropouts are much more likely than their peers who graduate to be unemployed, living in poverty, receiving public assistance, in prison, on death row, unhealthy, divorced ,and single parents with children who drop out from high school themselves…….. - (continued on this site: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/downloads/ed/thesilentepidemic3-06final.pdf)

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