National Women’s Law Center…..

has a report out calling for an improvement in graduation rates for girls.

The report shows that females are less likely to dropout than males, but they also show that a female that drops out has worse employment rate than a male student that has dropped out.

In one interesting bar chart showcasing the percentage of students leaving because of family reasons in North Carolina. For most grade levels and races it shows an increase of students dropping out from grade level to grade level.

They would like to see more gender based research which I can agree with. They want a graduation rate floor as part of the NCLB AYP rules. I like the idea, but hate the NCLB big time. One other idea out of the many they list that I fully agree with is bigger supports for pregnant students.