Helena School District Superintendent Bruce Messinger said addressing the dropout rate in Helena is a high priority for district administrators. Access to Success is geared toward students between ...

As part of his education agenda during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama outlined a plan to deal with high school dropouts by passing laws that pay for middle school interventions. Obama used his ...

The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 89, No. 4 (Nov., 2007), pp. 752-760 (9 pages) We develop an econometric model where the determinants of working while in school, academic performance, and ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. An article in Education Week sparked a controversy recently when Thomas C. West, an evaluation ...

The U.S. high school dropout rate has fallen in recent years, with the number of dropouts declining from 1 million in 2008 to about 750,000 in 2012, according to a ...