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NDPC/N > Statistics > Quick Facts 

Quick Facts

Quick answers to many of your questions regarding dropout statistics, and interesting facts about the issue, are located here.

• Economic Impacts of Dropouts
• Why Students Dropout
• Who Ranks Where? (Comparison of dropout rates by state)
• State News, with links to headlines and data for each state
  Education Week
• The Value of a Diploma (2001)  (PDF, 100 KB)
• Ages for compulsory school attendance, special education services for students, policies for year-round schools and kindergarten programs, by state: 1997 and 2000  (PDF, 14 KB)
• The Bottom Line: School Dropout Information  (PDF, 19 KB)

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