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Current Event - Conflicting Dropout Rates[[image:dropout.jpg width="361" height="264" align="right"]]
The borderline 100% literacy rates of the American population gives a false sense of the education of the american population. Though our literacy rate is high, we learn how to read and write enough to get by at around the 4th/5th grade. The average age of children in those grades is about 10 or 11. This is very early and many kids do not go on to finish Highschool or even Middle school. Some of the lower income urban areas in America have a surprisingly high dropout rate; sometimes close to 50%. Are we as a population as smart as we believe we are?



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