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In 1970, the United States had the highest rates of high school graduation in the world; now it has one of the lowest. According to the OECD, the overall U.S. graduation rate is now around 75 percent, which ranks the United States twenty-third out of twenty-eight countries surveyed. In some states and districts the graduation rate is much lower. Overall, about seven thousand young people drop out of the nation’s high schools every day, close to one and a half million a year. Some of these so-called dropouts go on to other forms of education, in community colleges, for example, or they study for the GED test. But there are still huge numbers of young people deciding that conventional education is just not for them.

Quote ID: 00625

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Sir Ken Robinson

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Creative Schools

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