| 1 | The school dropout rate also is high. | |
| 2 | The female dropout rate has fallen in half. | |
| 3 | in the inner city, a 50 percent dropout rate is not unusual. | |
| 4 | And he said to me one morning, 'The dropout rate, that' s it, I can' t stand it, it's intolerable. | |
| 5 | We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who begin college never finish. |