Dropouts: NPR Focuses On Troubling Issue
Over the past several months, Claudio Sanchez – NPR’s longtime education reporter – has been hard at work assembling a set of stories about dropouts that's going to run all week. As long a project as he’s ever worked on, Sanchez’s quintet of segments comes out of the economic reporting that NPR has already been doing on "Planet Money" – stories that focus on the real-world impact of the recession. In five segments ranging from five to seven minutes each, Sanchez wanted to look at those who were most likely to have been laid off first (or never employed in the first place), and to be unemployed longest (unless jail counts as a form of employment these
