"This report is the twelfth in a series of National Center for Education Statistics reports on high school dropout and completion rates. It presents data on rates in 1999, the most recent year for which data are available, and includes time series data on high school dropout and completion rates for the period 1972 through 1999. In addition to extending time series data reported in earlier years,...

"This report is the twelfth in a series of National Center for Education Statistics reports on high school dropout and completion rates. It presents data on rates in 1999, the most recent year for which data are available, and includes time series data on high school dropout and completion rates for the period 1972 through 1999. In addition to extending time series data reported in earlier years,...

In November 2001, this report was released from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It presents data on dropout rates from 1972 to 2000 and finds that the progress made in the 1970s and 1980s in reducing dropout rates was not duplicated in the 1990s, when rates remained relatively stable. The report also correlates dropout rates with other variables, such as income, ethnicity, and...