50 Percent of Foster Care Kids Don't Graduate High School

Education Nation 2011: 50 Percent of Foster Care Kids Don't Graduate High School:

At the end of tenth grade, Barbara Bell was about to get kicked out of school. She was getting D’s and F’s on her report card and was lashing out at her teachers and friends.

But unlike other teenagers struggling with school, Bell didn’t have her own home to go to at the end of the day. She was living in foster care.