Secretary Arne Duncan along with others, expressed much concern over the dropout rates! I attended America’s Promise Alliance Grad Nation Summit and we met with legislators on the alarming concern that a student is dropping out every 26 seconds! According to Education Week, a child not at level is four times less likely to graduate by age 19 and if the child is in poverty, is 13 times less likely! These students’ odds increase dramatically that they will likely drop out of high school, experience drugs, poverty, more health problems, single parenthood and the penal system! According to PRNewswire, males of any race are 47 times more likely to be incarcerated than their college graduating counterparts of the same age range!  For more, read my blog, http://debateandswitch.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/school-to-prison-pipeline/.”