noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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high
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In the early 1980s it had the highest absenteeism and dropout rates in Portland.
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He was white, 32, a high school dropout who did indeed know the victim and live in her building.
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An even higher dropout rate, 28. 1 percent, correlated with those who were especially idealistic and people-oriented.
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Factory operatives and laborers used to be high school graduates or even high school dropouts .
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State figures of babies born to high school dropouts ranged from 10 percent in North Dakota to 33 percent in Texas.
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For high school dropouts , it was 57 percent.
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The whole debate can be recast in the form of a single question: What should we do about high dropout rates?
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The real earnings of high school dropouts have plummeted as much as 26 percent in the past 15 years.
■ NOUN
rate
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This is why the dropout rate amongst would-be dealers is so phenomenal.
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They spend ever more on public education, yet test scores and dropout rates barely budge.
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Schools of choice have lower dropout rates , fewer discipline problems, better student attitudes, and higher teacher satisfaction.
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In the early 1980s it had the highest absenteeism and dropout rates in Portland.
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Thus Hispanics, whose school dropout rates were historically the highest, were often unable to find work.
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Not only are schools failing, but the national dropout rate is now over twenty percent and rising.
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An even higher dropout rate , 28. 1 percent, correlated with those who were especially idealistic and people-oriented.
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The schools agreed to reduce the dropout rate and improve daily attendance.
school
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Kids in our society who would be school dropouts or marginal students were working hard.
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He was white, 32, a high school dropout who did indeed know the victim and live in her building.
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Thus Hispanics, whose school dropout rates were historically the highest, were often unable to find work.
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Factory operatives and laborers used to be high school graduates or even high school dropouts .
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State figures of babies born to high school dropouts ranged from 10 percent in North Dakota to 33 percent in Texas.
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For high school dropouts , it was 57 percent.
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The real earnings of high school dropouts have plummeted as much as 26 percent in the past 15 years.
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But looking downward the wage premium that high school graduates used to enjoy relative to high school dropouts actually shrank.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About half of the prisoners are high-school dropouts.
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His mother is a high-school dropout , trying to raise four children on less than $500 a month.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cristalena was still in school, he was a dropout ... how would they get the money to survive?
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Half of them were dropouts returning to school.
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He was a kind of dropout .
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His Hal would be no rollicking dropout .
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Schools of choice have lower dropout rates, fewer discipline problems, better student attitudes, and higher teacher satisfaction.
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The dropouts from the first part of the ecological exam are easy to identify as they are, after all, dead.
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This is why the dropout rate amongst would-be dealers is so phenomenal.
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You may see yourself as a dropout or a failure.