June 4, 1999

Study Says Rigor of High-School Course Work Is the Best Predictor of College Graduation

By BEN GOSE

The rigor of a student's high-school curriculum is a better predictor of whether the student will graduate from college than either test scores or high-school grades, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Education.

Clifford Adelman, the senior research analyst who led the study, spent two years examining the transcripts and test scores of students who graduated from high school in 1982 to

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