Report: 'Dropout factories' on decline in US
A student works on a project that will earn high school and college credits at Richmond High School in Richmond, Ind., Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Named a dropout factory in 2007, the school worked with parents and the county's leaders to create tutoring programs for struggling students and encourage alternative classes such as dual enrollment where students earn both high school and college credit. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)By Dorie TurnerAssociated Press / November 30, 2010
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ATLANTA—The number of so-called "dropout factory" high schools in the United States has declined since 2002, translating into at least 100,000 more students getting a diploma, a new report shows.
But the report from America's Promise Alliance to be released Tuesday also said that progress needs to increase fivefold for the country to graduate nine out of 10 students by 2020, a goal of the Obama administration.
States including Tennessee, Texas, New York and Georgia have already figured out tactics that work. But fixing the problem won't be easy, said report co-author John Bridgeland.
"It's a targeted problem -- we know the schools, we have data on the students
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