Reply to "Graduation Rates correlated with ACEs"

Chris EngelMember

Hi Trevor,

I have the societal cost of dropouts if that helps you:

"The report puts the collective cost to the nation over the working life of each high school dropout at $292,000."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/education/09dropout.html?_r=1&

There are more figures on our page:

Trauma's Monetary Costs to Society

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/monetary-costs-to-society

ACEsConnection member Jim Sporleder has written some blog posts on education policy & ACEs. Here's one post of his that has some more figures:

State math test for high school seniors plays “high stakes” with kids’ lives, taxpayers

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/state-math-test-for-high-school-seniors-plays-high-stakes-with

Hopefully someone else will be able to contribute.

9/23/137:22 PM

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