The National Youth Employment Coalition provides some startling statistics, such as:
Every day, an estimated 2,500 students across the nation drop out of high school. (Keith Melville, The School Dropout Crisis, The University of Richmond Pew Partnership for Civic Change, 2006, 1, http://www.pew-partnership.org/pdf/dropout_overview.pdf)
Click on the above two links to learn more about this dire situation.
