Dropout Factories: New Strategies States Can Use.

In this article the authors discuss aspects of strategies to improve U.S. high schools that are referred to as dropout factories because of their low graduation rates. They believe that the location in a state of a high school with a low graduation rate matters as do school size and staffing ratios. Also investigated are the ideas that some states are better positioned than others to pursue educational reform and that different strategies are needed in districts with only one high school.