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Too many students in the state are dropping out of school, placing North Carolina among the lowest states in that category. Stallings' discussion of the dropout problem includes how North Carolina tracks and measures dropout rates; which students drop out and why; and what the state and local school districts are doing to reduce the dropout rate. The article concludes with six recommendations for improving the state's dropout problem.
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Knowland discusses the increasing dropout problem in the state's high schools and programs that seek to reduce it. These programs include Communities in Schools of NC; Futures For Kids; North Carolina Business Committee For Education; North Carolina New Schools Project; Public School Forum Of NC; and SAS Educational Value-Added Assessment System.