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Article: Black, white high school graduation rates equalizing
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- June 29, 1998
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06-29-1998
WASHINGTON (AP) _ More women than men are completing college and young blacks are nearly equaling the high school graduation rate of whites, says a new Census Bureau report.
Some 86.2 percent of blacks aged 25 to 29 were high school graduates last year, as were 87.6 percent of whites, said the study, ``Educational Attainment in the United States, March 1997,'' released Sunday.
``The educational attainment of young African-Americans indicates a dramatic improvement by groups who historically have been less educated,'' Census population specialist Jennifer Day said.
In higher education, 29.3 percent of women and 26.3 percent of men in the 25-29 age group had ...
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