Some attend school part time, juggling their academic work with family or full-time jobs, and so the dropout rate, and time-to-degree, runs higher than at élite institutions.
So, the dropout rate of Penta-1 to Penta-3 was 11.8%, Penta-1 to measles 19.5% and overall BCG to measles dropout was 15.8%.
One major application of pooled shRNA screens is to perform negative selection screens, so called "dropout screens", in cancer cell lines to identify cancer-essential genes that represent potential therapeutic targets.
Like so many dropouts before him, my father spent his time in Goa running a hamburger bar.
More than a million kids fail to graduate on time every year, and it's not surprising that the schools with almost half of all dropouts (so-called "dropout factories") are schools that serve low-income and minority students.
The debaters proposed that if these so-called dropout factories refuse to enroll the children, then nonprofits and wealthier schools might intercede, offering the students better educations.
And Mr. Duncan has asked the states to come up with plausible plans to turn around failing schools — so-called dropout factories — and to better serve minority students.
IN "Waiting for Superman," the recent critically acclaimed documentary about American schools, Davis Guggenheim, the director, lingers on so-called dropout factories and academic sinkholes in poor neighborhoods.
That's one reason GM is pumping $27 million into a program to break up so-called dropout factories and reinvent them as smaller, better schools.
To avoid the so-called dropout syndrome referring to 'trainees leave the project after successful training' [2], p. 33] a village meeting elected members of the PLD who were deemed reliable and committed.
