In the U S today retaining students in schools has been a big problem Retention in school is defined as having the ability to prevent students from dropping out of school According to Colin Powell in his article Keeping Americas Promise 1 2 million students per year nearly 7 000 students per school day one student every 26 seconds drops out These figures are disturbing because it seems young adults are unavailing about education they rather enjoy their social life and have fun For young people