The fact that 1.4 million students drop out of school every year--that's one every 42 seconds--it's a human tragedy.
Betsy DeVos: “The fact that 1.4 million students drop out of school every year--that's one every 42 seconds--it's a human tragedy.”
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DeVos highlights the severe dropout rate and its implications for students' futures.
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Reading opens kids' minds and expands their world. Literacy is the foundation of learning and it's the starting point on the pathway to the American dream.
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I, too, don't agree with your approach with continuing to do the same thing with more and more resources and expect a different result.