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24 June 2006

Diplomas Count!

"Diplomas Count, the first in a new annual series from Education Week, finds large gaps in graduation rates across racial and ethnic groups, and by gender.
The report, released Tuesday, June 20, provides detailed data on graduation rates for the 2002-03 school year, the most recent data available, for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and in the nation's 50 largest school districts.
The online version of the report includes 'State Graduation Reports,' containing policy indicators related to important graduation-rate issues as well as state-level graduation rates for specific subgroups, broken out by race and gender.
View your state graduation report.
The report is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
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Anonymous said...

Education Week’s extensive review of America’s dismal graduation rates is a great service to those of us who are dedicated to reversing this disturbing trend that threatens our nation’s position as a world leader.

The economic and social prospects for young people who don’t finish high school are increasingly bleak. In the school year just ended, an estimated 1.2 million teenagers failed to earn a high school diploma. These 1.2 million teenagers are will earn 34 percent less than teens who graduate and 132 percent less than someone who goes on to graduate from college. They will also be four times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed, end up in prison or on welfare, and die younger.

Of the students entering the 9th grade in 2002, an estimated 30 percent will fail to graduate in four years. That’s 4,000 students per day not receiving a diploma.

The most reliable predictor of a young person’s long-term success in life comes down to this: whether he or she graduated from high school. We often say that the children are our future. When you consider that 30% of our nation’s children will not finish high school, what does that say about our future? We can debate the data, but by anyone’s measure, we are in crisis.

6/28/2006 10:15 am

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