{"id":228,"date":"2011-12-20T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=228"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:20:26","slug":"behind-the-numbers-why-dropouts-have-it-worse-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2011\/12\/20\/behind-the-numbers-why-dropouts-have-it-worse-than-ever-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Numbers: Why Dropouts Have it Worse Than Ever Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">A new dropout crisis study reveals staggering statistics on economic gaps between those in Chicago and around state of Illinois with and without high school diplomas.<br \/>\nEarlier this week, our friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wttw.com\/main.taf?p=87,1\">WTTW Chicago Tonight<\/a> interviewed economist Andrew Sum about the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagotonight.wttw.com\/sites\/default\/file\/November%202011%20High%20School%20Dropout%20Paper.pdf\">study<\/a>, released by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/clms\">Center for Labor Market Studies<\/a> at Northeastern University. As Sum highlights, these numbers add up to a long-term effect not only for American society, but also for dropouts for most of their lives.<br \/>\nWatch below for Chicago Tonight&#8217;s interview with Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies:<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"304\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"width=480&amp;height=304&amp;video=2174793029&amp;player=viral&amp;end=404053\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/video\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/video\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"width=480&amp;height=304&amp;video=2174793029&amp;player=viral&amp;end=404053\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #808080;margin-top: 5px;background: transparent;text-align: center;width: 512px\">Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2174793029\" target=\"_blank\">December 8, 2011 &#8211; High School Dropout Rates<\/a> on PBS. See more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wttw.com\/chicagotonight\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tonight.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new dropout crisis study reveals staggering statistics on economic gaps between those in Chicago and around state of Illinois with and without high school diplomas. Earlier this week, our friends over at WTTW Chicago Tonight interviewed economist Andrew Sum about the study, released by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2011\/12\/20\/behind-the-numbers-why-dropouts-have-it-worse-than-ever-before\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind the Numbers: Why Dropouts Have it Worse Than Ever Before<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_national_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}