What's at Stake

The National Women's Law Center's video series, What's at Stake, offers insights into many of the issues facing women and families today.

In this installment, The Dropout Crisis for Girls: What You Should Know, NWLC Senior Counsel Lara Kaufmann discusses some of the challenges facing female dropouts and provides insight into why dropout prevention is so important for girls.

Check out the video on the left. Then, you can:

• E-mail the video to your friends, family and colleagues
• Download the slides from the presentation
• Find out more about dropout prevention at nwlc.org/dropout
• Download When Girls Don't Graduate, We All Fail: A Call to Improve High School Graduation Rates for Girls
• Download the report by NWLC and MALDEF, Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation
• Learn more about how your school can provide better support for pregnant and parenting students

And check out our previous installments in the What's at Stake series:

In Title IX: What You Should Know, NWLC Senior Counsel Neena Chaudhry discusses Title IX - the landmark 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education in the United States.

In Pharmacy Refusals 101: What You Should Know, NWLC Senior Counsel Gretchen Borchelt explores the problem of pharmacists who refuse to fill valid prescriptions for contraception or sell over-the-counter emergency contraception.