51.   Even without good statistics, there is evidence that the dropout rate is climbing.

52.   Elsewhere, efforts to decrease dropout rates and boost high school graduates met with mixed results.

53.   Experts say that attitude colors the growing debate over how to solve the high Latino dropout rate.

54.   Gang violence, high dropout rates, low achievement and lower teacher pay made the headlines.

55.   Gov. Jeanne Shaheen said she was ordering educators to develop ways to reduce the dropout rate.

56.   Had we kept our dropout rate low, had we kept our commitment to each other, we would be further along.

57.   Getting rid of practical arts courses might increase the dropout rate, some educators worried.

58.   He cut the dropout rate by a third.

59.   He has sponsored legislation to provide federal aid to combat high school dropout rates, a critical problem among Hispanics.

60.   He forged a partnership with the local school district to promote literacy and combat dropout rates.