So schools with high drop out rates and high borrowing rates come out looking far worse than what they actually may be.
Quality of education remains a major concern for the region, as indicated by high drop out and repetition rates in several countries.
In reality, even the apparently non-selective universities apply a form of selection by quietly putting up with very high drop-out rates.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a Senate education committee earlier this year that 27 percent of American high schoolers drop out and that 40 percent of the country's "young people" earn a two- or four-year college degree.
But because of a high drop-out rate, and its failure to meet student recruitment targets, South Bank has been obliged to cut academic jobs, and give back some of its grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the primary government funding agency for universities.
They like the folksy, guy-next-door manner of a high school drop-out who was a television reporter before entering politics as mayor of Calgary.
Nearly three-quarters stated that the program gave them skills to succeed in the classroom, no small benefit given that 25% of American public high school students drop out before graduation.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
To them, Mr Shigeta will always be a spiv with a flaky past a high-school drop-out who was bound to come to a sticky end.
From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.
Unlike Mr Estrada, who served as a mayor, senator and vice-president before his presidential bid, Mr Poe, a high-school drop-out, had never run for office before.
Unfortunately, increased minimum wages induce some teenagers to drop out of high school and take a job.
Boys, meanwhile, are more likely to drop out of high school than girls.
According to the study, children growing up in one-parent homes are 16% more likely to drop out of high school.
Can you drop out of high school and find a good job?
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Less than half of Providence fourth-graders are deemed proficient in reading and math, and roughly one third of city students will drop out of high school.
The result is half the kids drop out of high school, because NOW they have to take First and second year Algebra AND Geometry just to get a high School diploma.
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Over half of pupils drop out of high school.
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Now, it's true that not long ago, you could drop out of high school and reasonably expect to find a blue-collar job that would pay the bills and help support your family.
Two in five students still drop out before finishing high school.
Many Latinos drop out before collecting a high-school diploma.
School enrolment rates are therefore substantially lower in these areas, and drop-out rates are relatively high.
Data on the extent to which students drop out of school before receiving a high school diploma also correlate with measures of family income and parental education.
Today, students from low-income families are five times as likely to drop out of school as students from high-income families, according to data from the Department of Education.
After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to drop out altogether to devote more time to his passion for technology.
High school students from families at the bottom 20 percent income group are six times more likely to drop out than students from higher-income families.
So a relatively high-tax country such as France might see a drop in foreign investment if nearby tax havens went out of business, because foreign companies would no longer be able to use them to minimise French tax bills.
With the rest of the leaders playing over the weekend, the Sharks may drop out of the top four again, but play their game in hand against Wasps in High Wycombe on Tuesday evening.
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