Dropping out of high school has its costs around the globe, but nowhere steeper than in the United States. Adults who don't finish high school in the U.S. earn 65 percent of what people who have high school degrees make, according to a new report comparing industrialized nations. No other country had such a severe income gap. The figures come from "Education at a Glance," an annual study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
See "High School Dropouts Earn Far Less Money", Ben Feller, San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 2006