Although the United States has achieved universal access at the elementary level, a substantial minority of students about one in 20 drop out of school at the middle and high school levels.
In addition to these, the nomadic lifestyle of herder families makes the children, particularly the boys, drop out of school to assist the family.
The prospect of a higher wage encourages people to drop out of school and participate in the labor market (where they might crowd out those who are even less productive).
But his take-home pay has fallen by nearly a third and the thought that his brother may have to drop out of school so he can help the family gnaws at Mr. Zhang.
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The doctors say her prognosis looks good, but she has had to drop out of her grad school program for the semester.
Most of the rest are shunted off into special schools for the mentally disabled or else drop out of normal school before they are 15 years old, many of them defeated by bullying and homework that is hard to finish in cold and unlit homes.
And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers.
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The result is half the kids drop out of high school, because NOW they have to take First and second year Algebra AND Geometry just to get a high School diploma.
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Peter Thiel is free to spend his money the way he wants and those teenagers are free to accept the offer to drop out of school.
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They never want to accept responsibility for kids who drop out of school but they're the first in line to claim credit for the kids who wind up in the Ivy League.
Visions of my daughter withdrawing the money on her 18th birthday and using it to drop out of school or join a cult flashed through my mind.
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Without water 'on tap' economies can't get going, children are more likely to drop out of school or just not attend in the first place and hospitals find it virtually impossible to cope with the spread of disease and infections.
"I know that nine little children did not walk through a schoolhouse door in Little Rock so that we could stand by and let our children drop out of school and turn to gangs for the support they are not getting elsewhere, " he said accusingly.
So could the number of children who drop out of school too early.
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"It's really unfortunate, but we're seeing more and more young men who drop out of school and end up selling drugs on the streets, " he said.
Data on the extent to which students drop out of school before receiving a high school diploma also correlate with measures of family income and parental education.
Violence, and its threat, is one of the key factors forcing girls to drop out of school.
Such a drop-out rate has its roots in the earliest years of school, when under-performing students are pushed through the system.
When dads are not around, young people are more likely to drop out of school, use drugs, be involved in the criminal justice system, and become young parents themselves.
There is some evidence that parents of children at grade 6, 7 and 8 who are doing poorly on academic grades lose the financial support of parents and drop out of school.
One out of three Indians cannot read and write their own names and half the children who join primary school drop out.
Today, students from low-income families are five times as likely to drop out of school as students from high-income families, according to data from the Department of Education.
After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to drop out altogether to devote more time to his passion for technology.
The government aims to reduce the number of rural students who drop out or migrate to urban areas because of village school closures and mergers, China Daily reports.
Now, it's true that not long ago, you could drop out of high school and reasonably expect to find a blue-collar job that would pay the bills and help support your family.
They like the folksy, guy-next-door manner of a high school drop-out who was a television reporter before entering politics as mayor of Calgary.
While women will stay in school to master the ideas of their books and professors, men will drop out to start a company around their own original idea.
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"We are deliberately trying to drop the old Sunday school image because it sends out the wrong message, " says Diana Murrie, the Church of England's National Children's Officer.
Nearly three-quarters stated that the program gave them skills to succeed in the classroom, no small benefit given that 25% of American public high school students drop out before graduation.
Take a moment to listen to the story of Setraniona, who regularly suffered from water-borne diseases and had to drop out of school as a child before completing her education.
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