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Article: Dispelling the Graduation Myth: Why High School Graduation Rates Are Much Higher Than Believed, Especially for Blacks, Hispanics; National Conference Call April 19.
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- April 13, 2006
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Byline: Economic Policy Institute
WASHINGTON, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent reports that only half of minorities and two-thirds of all students end up with a high school diploma have been accepted as gospel, with a new Manhattan Institute report next week expected to echo these low graduation rates. But a new Economic Policy Institute report finds this much-repeated refrain is seriously inaccurate, and that a wealth of better data shows high school completion rates are much higher, with about 75 percent of black and Hispanic students receiving diplomas nationally and an overall national rate of 82 percent. Although substantial gaps remain between the ...