dropout factories
Mass student exodus
Dropout factories is a disparaging term for high schools with exceptionally low graduation rates—schools where large numbers of students fail to complete their education.
The term frames these institutions as producing dropouts the way factories produce goods, implying systemic failure rather than individual student shortcomings: Critics called the underfunded urban schools dropout factories.
The phrase gained currency in education policy debates about school accountability and reform.
- underperformingDoing worse than expected
- teachersThose who instruct students
- dropoutsPeople who leave early
- left behindAbandoned or forgotten
- studentsThose receiving instruction
schools · parents · high schools · ninth grade · class size · achievement gap · truancy · education · turnaround · alternative schooling · educational inequality · graduation rates · student retention · credit recovery · at-risk youth · inner city · low income · alienation
dropout factoriesprep schools
Tuition-based college-track institutions
Exeter · Andover · boarding schools · gifted programs · finishing schools
dropout factoriescommunity schools
Locally-rooted educational institutions
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