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Article: STATE MISLEADS PUBLIC ON GRADUATION RATES OTHER STATES DO BETTER WHY CAN'T COLORADO?(Opinion/Commentary/Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2003
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In a study of high school graduation rates and college readiness just released by the Manhattan Institute, Colorado looks pretty bad - a lot worse, in fact, than state officials have been letting on.
And if you analyze Colorado's performance by ethnic groups, it's positively dismal.
Researchers Jay Greene and Greg Forster use a method of calculating graduation rates that yields consistently less rosy results than education officials usually cite. In summary, they ask: For every 100 students who start the ninth grade, how many graduate four years later?
In Colorado, the answer is 68, that is, 68 percent. The national average is 70 percent.
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