How to Identify a High School Dropout Factory
November 30, 2011 RSS Feed PrintMany of America's high school dropouts attend schools that graduate fewer than 60 percent of their students. Although the number of these "dropout factories" has decreased from 2,007 in 2002 to 1,634 in 2009, according to a March 2011 report by America's Promise Alliance, thousands of students still fail to graduate from these high schools.
As one would expect, problems run rampant at these schools, according to Nelson Reidar, a teacher who spent the 2010-2011 school year training educators in classroom management skills at a Southern California high school that graduated just