Sarah Palin has a problem (as does the reporter in this article)
Here’s an Anchorage Daily News article about the high dropout rate in that state:
Among the grim statistics:
• 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 diploma 10 years from now, according to the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education.
• Alaska ranks 50th, or last, in the number of ninth-graders who will likely have a bachelor’s degree in 10 years, according to the commission.
Here’s a case where I have to comment on the inadequate reporting. If you have a problem this severe, and yet somehow never include in the reporting that the problem is driven by males, haven’t you left something out? Here’s the real deal on Alaska’s education problems.
