A Worrying Dearth of Human Capital

According to the Secretariat of Public Education's high school chief, 40 percent of Mexican high schoolers drop out in their first two years, not because of any economic concern but because school doesn't coincide with their interests. For comparison's sake, let's head to the US: in 2000 11 percent of the nation's 16 to 24-year-olds were neither enrolled in high school nor had they graduated.