1.0 link 68532 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-milliken/battling-the-dropout-epid_b_68532.html My colleagues and I at Communities In Schools have spent the past 30 years creating an antidote to our nation's dropout epidemic. It is an epidemic, and a bad one: In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued its report "The Silent Epidemic," documenting just how bleak the situation is. Each year, almost one third of all public high school students -- and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans -- fail to graduate with...

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