California Chronicle Get Schooled: The Gates Foundation Launches a New Education Program to Help Students Succeed:
"Every 26 seconds a student drops out of high school. Every day 7,000 students walk out on their educations. One-third of all students fail to graduate from high school. And most low-income students who start college never finish.
These are some big issues. And on Sept. 8, big names from business, entertainment and politics gathered to help solve these problems at a conference held at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California. The event centered on the launch of Get Schooled, an initiative started by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The five-year program is dedicated to helping more high school kids graduate so that they can succeed later in life."
"Every 26 seconds a student drops out of high school. Every day 7,000 students walk out on their educations. One-third of all students fail to graduate from high school. And most low-income students who start college never finish.
These are some big issues. And on Sept. 8, big names from business, entertainment and politics gathered to help solve these problems at a conference held at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California. The event centered on the launch of Get Schooled, an initiative started by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The five-year program is dedicated to helping more high school kids graduate so that they can succeed later in life."