Tag: dropouts

Sarah Palin talked a lot about education, but let’s look at her own state for some clarification: Alaska’s dropout rate, at 8 percent, was double the national average in the 2005-2006 school year, according to the latest figures available from the U.S. Department of Education. 38 percent of today’s ninth-graders will have no high school […]

We have a serious problem when it now takes $40,000 dollars to get kids to want to enlist: The U.S. Army is having such a hard time recruiting new soldiers that it is about to offer a truly breathtaking incentive to high-school graduates who sign up-a $40,000 signing bonus, to be applied to buying a […]