The top half of my face is featured on the cover of this report, launching my promising modeling career.

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On a more serious note, the report brings up a really interesting issue. No Child Left Behind, in an attempt to make states accountable for their performance, made dropout rates a measurement of school success or failure. The problem? Schools and states made their own definitions of what a ‘dropout’ really was. As such, measuring the true dropout rate of schools is more difficult than you might think.

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