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    What Does “Dropout” Really Mean?
    Discussion
    Discuss the following questions.
    1. Do you think that it is OK to use deceiving statistics if it is for a good cause? 
    Why or why not?
    2. Think of an example of a misleading statistic that an individual or organization 
    has used. What was the purpose of them doing so?
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    Vocabulary Preview
     
    Match each word or phrase with the correct definition.
    1. dilemma 
    a. registration in a class or school
    2. decline 
    b. to relate to a particular cause or source
    3. enrollment 
    c. to decrease; to go down
    4. attribute 
    d. a problem; difficulty
    5. ensure 
    e. to seek; to go after
    6. pursue 
    f. to guarantee
    Pre-Reading Questions
    Think about the following questions.
    1. What percentage of the students at your school are women?
    2. Which majors do men usually choose? 
    Which majors do women choose?
    3. What kinds of jobs do men do if they do not attend university? 
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    hese days, college lecture halls in the United States are being filled 
    more and more by female rather than male students. Women now 
    make up 55 percent of the college population
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    and that number 
    continues to rise. Within ten years, three million more women than men may be 
    attending US colleges.
    Thirty years ago, male students were the majority on college campuses in the 
    United States. Traditionally, men acted as the breadwinners of their families, 
    and college was seen as the path to career advancement and higher salaries. But 
    during the feminist movements of the 1970s, more women aspired to having 
    careers and enrolled in college to pursue degrees. By the mid-1980s, more women 
    than men were attending college. At the same time, there was an unexpected 
    decline in the number of males applying to college. Educators are still uncertain of 
    the cause of this decline, but it continues to affect enrollment numbers for men in 
    higher education. Researchers have suggested a number of theories to account for 
    males’ seeming decline in interest in seeking college degrees.
    According to the National Center for Education Statistics, males leave or are 

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