2008年6月真题短文3(1/3) - 英语听力

Senior high schools

Coupled with this fact is the warning that soon we will no longer have a work force to fill the many jobs that require properly educated personnel

The high student drop-out rate is not a recent development

Ten years ago

Many urban schools were reporting drop-out rates between 35 and 50

Some administrators maintain that drop-outs remain the single greatest problem in their schools