We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.
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High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
We need more STEM grads, and we need to quit equipping our competitors.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
We are in the middle of an education recession.
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