Libraries : Government Resources

Dropouts and Dropout Rates

• Educational Attainment of High School Dropouts 8 Years Later (National Center
  for Education Statistics)
• Dropout Rates in the United States (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Dropout Statistics (in Digest of Education Statistics)
• Dropout Statistics (in Social Statistics Briefing Room)
• High School Dropout Rates (Child Trends DataBank)
• High School Dropouts (in Statistical Abstract of the United States)
• How Many Central City High Schools Have A Severe Dropout Problem, Where Are
  They Located, and Who Attends Them? Initial Estimates Using the Common Core
  of Data (The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University)
• Kentucky Dropout Rates
• National Institute of Statistical Sciences/Education Statistics Services Institute
  Task Force on Graduation, Completion, and Dropout Indicators (National Center
  for Education Statistics)
• No Child Left Behind : The Need to Address the Dropout Crisis. Hearing
  (Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. Senate)
• The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts. A Report by Civil
  Enterprises in Association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill and
  Melinda Gates Foundation (Civic Enterprises, LLC)