American Graduate: The Impact of the High School Dropout Crisis

As a part of the American Graduate program, Kavitha Cardoza, WAMU 88.5 education reporter, writes a series of articles examining the dropout crisis in D.C. Cardoza interviews teachers, parents, researchers, and dropouts as she looks at the causes and consequences of the dropout problem, which affects approximately 1 million students each year and has been called "the civil rights issue of our time."

Check out the whole series below.