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PolitiFact
3rd-grade reading stats from Jeff Greene, FL Dem candidate for governor, mostly hold up
As noted in the Chicago study, and backed up by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Georgia governor’s office, students who score below grade level on third grade reading tests are less likely to graduate. Then, there are studies that show high school dropouts are more likely to go to prison. A study from Northeastern University showed that a man with […]
High school dropout rate: causes and costs
The financial ramifications of dropping out of high school hurt more than the individual. It’s estimated that half of all Americans on public assistance are dropouts. If all of the dropouts from the class of 2011 had earned diplomas, the nation would benefit from an estimated $154 billion in income over their working lifetimes. Potentially […]
Mass. posts strongest year for job growth since 2000
Alan Clayton-Matthews, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, said the benefits of the economic expansions are beginning to reach more people. The spread between the unemployment rate of college graduates and high school dropouts has narrowed over the last year, according to Clayton-Matthews’s analysis of federal data.
The other unemployment crisis: teenagers are being left out of the recovery
For most of the year, the broad main streets of High Point, N.C. are quiet and empty, much like any other faded post-industrial town. But for 10-day long stints twice a year, the empty showrooms fill with the latest upholstery fashions, and home furnishings buyers from around the world pack the town’s few restaurants. That’s […]
Chicago Tribune
Fixing schools to fix Chicago
Dropouts who don’t end up dead often end up in prison. By age 34, dropouts are about 140 times more likely to be in correctional institutions than their peers with college degrees, according to a 2011 study by Northeastern University in Boston. In Illinois, half of the people in prison in 2011 hadn’t finished high school. Those […]
AFRO
Youth Jobs Much More Than Paid Distractions Before a Diploma
If you think job opportunities are dim for Americans with a high school diploma and a degree- try making it without one- or both in the new American workforce. When the Center for Labor Market Studies (CLMS) at Northeastern University analyzed 2012 unemployment data, they found that Black youths who left high school sans a […]
PBS NewsHour
How to Guarantee a Job for Every American
William Darity: Ninety-five percent joblessness for teen black male dropouts? That estimate, from Northeastern University’s Andrew Sum, borders on the fantastic as an indictment of the American labor market. Add to Sum’s damning statistic the finding that blacks with some college education or an associate’s degree experienced higher unemployment than whites who had dropped out of high […]
PBS NewsHour
Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
Paul Solman: Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum is featured in our youth joblessness story on the NewsHour Friday. His full picture of the crisis is essential reading, however, and so we share more of my interview with him here. For example, if you are a poor African-American high school teenage dropout, your likelihood of having a job […]
WTTW
High School Dropout Rates
Chicago is home to the third largest public school district in the country, and it’s a system that’s plagued by a high dropout rate. A new study has taken a closer look at the individual and societal costs of dropping out. Andrew Sum, professor of Economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies […]
A Winning School: Lessons from a Highly Successful Massachusetts High School
One of Massachusetts’ public high schools has a 97 percent graduation rate and a dropout rate of less than .02 percent (3 out of 1,323 students). It ranks among the highest percentage of students scoring advanced or proficient in the 2011 MCAS assessments (97% in Language Skills; 85% in Math; and 91% in Science.) The school valedictorian […]