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The Dropout Problem: Still Considered a “Crisis?”

I’ve seen the statement made over the years several times: that the term “dropout” was not used prior to 1950. This implies that dropping out of school before graduation was seen as a normal course of events and that schools did not think it was necessary to do anything about it.

5 months ago by Compass Learning Staff