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Today, a national dropout prevention summit takes place in Washington. The Department of Education is moving toward a standard reporting of dropout rates across the country.

More and more leaders are waking up to the opportunity to reduce dramatically the number of high school dropouts. There's probably no single more effective step we can take to boost long-term per capita incomes, as we move into an era of skill shortages. (Each drop out represents a lifetime earnings loss of about $300,000.)

Here's a new report from America's Promise Alliance. Download the report.

Clearly, old solutions to drop-outs (including pretending that the problem was not all that big) no longer work.

Can we innovate?