If We Want To Know Why Teens Drop Out Of School In Such Huge Numbers, Shouldn’t We Just … Ask ‘Em?

In the U.S., we have this chronic problem of looking past the people who are affected the most by our country’s greatest struggles, including the millions of young people we’re losing to the high school dropout crisis. Here’s an amazing project — and contest! — that’s working to change that.

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