January 27, 2006
Graduation Rates Remain at Record High
Black football players and white basketball players make gains, while numbers fall in other categories
Three yards and a cloud of dust. Many football teams use that strategy to grind out small gains from the backfield. But the phrase could just as well describe the inch-by-inch progress that college athletes are making in the classroom.
For the second consecutive year, scholarship athletes graduated at historic levels, according to a report released last week by the National
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