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Article: Study: Graduation rates `implausibly high'.(A)(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2001
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Byline: Cheryl Wetzstein
The nation's high school graduation rates are inflated to the point of "implausibility," says a study that finds that black students graduate from public schools at especially low levels.
Nationally, only 74 percent of the class of 1998 in public schools graduated, said Jay P. Greene, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
This compares with an 86 percent national high school completion rate in 1998, according to the federal National Center for Education Statistics.
The federal government measures high school completion rates based on census data and reports from school districts, and ...