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Article: Graduation rates just don't make the grade
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- Daily Breeze
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- February 16, 2002
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Graduation rates just don't make the grade
Jay Greene hasbad news about high-school graduation rates and
nobody much wants to hear it.
In a report for the Manhattan Institute commissioned by the Black
Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), Greene carried out a simple
calculation, based on data available from the National Center for
Education Statistics.
Take the number of children entering eighth grade in the fall of
1993. Adjust for population changes between 1993 and 1998, when those
children would graduate from high school; that's roughly the expected
number of diplomas that would be awarded if nobody dropped out and
everybody graduated on schedule.
Divide the actual number of ...