An annual report, published today by Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, shows that high-school graduation rates dipped slightly for the Class of 2007. Only 68.8 percent of students who started as ninth graders in the 2003-4 academic year had graduated four years later, according to the report, “Diplomas Count 2010: Graduation by the Numbers — Putting Data to Work for Student Success.” That’s down slightly from 69.2 percent for the previous high-school class and marks the second year of decline in the national graduation rate.
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2 Responses to High-School Graduation Rates Dip Slightly for Second Straight Year
22286593 - June 10, 2010 at 5:14 pm
This shows that our nation is a nation in intense crisis. For those of us in higher education, unless we contribute more directly to the effectiveness of the K-12 system, we will die a slow death as college-eligible (or college-able) population continues to decline.
honore - June 11, 2010 at 9:24 am
this is nothing new and the future bodes a very ugly picture for all but the most elite of Americans…too much politicking, personal aggrandizement and pettiness have been the over-riding themes in K-12. It is time to take the reigns from the hands of community charlatanes who very easily become the local “education” leaders and focus more on their egos than the educational well-being of our children. Turn the reigns over to those who have the expertise, scholarship and research to promote educational systems that work for the benefit of our country and not to promote each passing political gust of internal gas.