....There's the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program, in which high school dropouts live on a military base for six months, earning their GEDs.

In Georgia, a wire and cable manufacturer called Southwire has set up an in-factory school for dropouts that teaches them academics and manufacturing.

In Florida, there are proposals to lower the college tuition of students who major in subjects such as science, engineering, and medicine, which lead to in-demand jobs.

"We just have to try stuff," said Dan Bloom, policy director at MDRC, a nonprofit education and social policy research organization. "Test it rigorously and figure how to replicate it. I don't know any other way to change things...."

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