This part of No Child Left Behind was created to provide schools with support for retention of all students and prevention of dropouts from the most at-risk youth.

This particular grant program provides funding to State Education Agency, and/or the local school districts.

Finally, the act provided that the US Department of Education would create a national recognition program that would identify schools that have been effective in lowering their dropout rates.

[4] Historically, an extreme amount of pressure is placed on our schools to raise test scores, with very little attention paid to ensuring that students graduated.

[7] Moreover, the stress of this act is to reach students at the onsite of any at-risk behavior, specifically lower standardized test scores, as research suggests that the gap between standardized test scores and classroom performance only increases with time.