High School Graduation rates higher than believed
Posted by on October 20, 2006
[posted from Public Education Network newsblast]
GRADUATION MYTH: HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN BELIEVED
Recent reports that only half of minorities and two-thirds of all students end up with a high school diploma have been accepted as gospel. But a new Economic Policy Institute report finds this much-repeated refrain is seriously inaccurate, and that a wealth of better data shows high school completion rates are much higher, with about 75 percent of black and Hispanic students receiving diplomas nationally and an overall national rate of 82 percent. Although substantial gaps remain between the graduation rates of whites and either blacks or Hispanics, the report – “Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends” — documents that graduation rates have been growing and racial/ethnic gaps closing over the past four decades.
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