Article: A Closer Look At Area Rates Of Graduation; Higher Test Scores Might Not Mean More Diplomas

Article: Higher Test Scores Might Not Translate Into More Diplomas; Accuracy of High School Graduation Rates Questioned
The Washington Post;  June 15, 2008 ;     505 words ......rates. The graduation rates published by states and school systems are widely...week, showed graduation rates among local school systems range from...Washington area school systems showed improvement in their graduation rates from 2003...

Article: Campaign for High School Equity Urges Senate to Hold Schools Accountable for Increasing Graduation Rates
U.S. Newswire;  January 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......students by holding school systems accountable...diploma, and graduation rates for poor and...two different school systems. During the...benefit from school improvement...be occurring. Graduation rates should be considered...

Article: Precise Graduation Rates a First
The Washington Post;  October 9, 2008 ;     76 words ......time, Virginia schools are reporting precise on- time graduation rates. The statewide rate for the Class of 2008 was developed...who graduated this spring with diplomas. Here are the graduation rates for local school systems: Alexandria 76.2 Arlington County 81.9 Falls Church...

Article: High Rankings For Area Schools; Graduation Rates In Montgomery, Fairfax Near Top
The Washington Post;  July 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ......high school graduation rates compare across...analysis of graduation rates for the nation...decline in graduation rates, which have...the national graduation rate of 69...tion's 50 largest school districts. Graduation rates in smaller...Montgomery ...

Article: Study Puts Montgomery on Top in Graduation Rates
The Washington Post;  June 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Eleven of 17 school systems in the Washington...area have graduation rates that compare...to track graduation rates in the 2010-...the area's school systems. One of the...produced graduation rates for Washington area school systems are ...

Article: Study Finds Pluses In Graduation Rates; Prince George's Tops Similar Districts
The Washington Post;  June 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Eleven of 17 school systems in the Washington...area have graduation rates that compare...to track graduation rates in the 2010-...the area's school systems. One of the...produced graduation rates for Washington area school systems are ...

Article: GRADUATION RATES LOWER IN BIG CITIES.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  May 1, 1996 ;     180 words ......big cities are less likely to graduate from high school than their rural and suburban counterparts, a new...use in a series of hearings he is holding on urban school systems. The report was sent Tuesday to school systems. Among the findings: Seventy-seven percent of students...in the same ...

Article: Va., Md. Revising Diploma Counts; Estimates of High School Graduation Rates Seen as Inaccurate
The Washington Post;  February 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ......conviction that graduation rates are widely overstated...for figuring graduation rates. "Hopefully...and Virginia school systems say they are...have estimated graduation rates based on the...two-thirds of high school students graduate...evidence that ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS POST GAINS IN GRADUATION RATES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......release: Recent efforts to improve graduation rates at The University of Texas System...campuses posted increases in six-year graduation rates by an average of 3.3 percentage points...nine institutions increased four-year graduation rates by an average of 4.3 percentage points...

Article: Low graduation rates in many city schools
Redlands Daily Facts;  April 1, 2008 ;     469 words ......of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland...about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA STUDY: MEN'S BASKETBALL GRADUATION RATES SHOW PROGRESS, BUT RACIAL DISPARITIES REMAIN
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 15, 2006 ;     671 words ......based on their most recent Federal Graduation Rates reports, a University of Central Florida...Final Four were selected based on graduation rates, Bucknell, Florida, Illinois and Villanova...annual study of basketball teams' graduation rates issued Monday by UCF's Institute for...

Article: AT&T Awards $150,000 to Communities in Schools of Georgia for Initiatives to Increase Graduation Rates.
PR Newswire;  September 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......students across 67 school systems. Key programs...Education to increase graduation rates in Georgia, said...raise Georgia's graduation rates. Through 50 local...with 27 local school systems and communities...students in 66 school systems. Key ...

Article: For graduation rates, time to carve a new yardstick.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education;  July 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ......DATA POINTS ARE AS FREQUENTLY MISUSED AS graduation rates. Graduation rates measure attendance time, not outcomes, predicated...Verna will never exist in the calculation of graduation rates at Trinity, because she was not a first-time...

Article: U.S.: States must tally graduation rates our way
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 2, 2008 ;     374 words ......04-02-2008 U.S.: States must tally graduation rates our way THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 04...will require states to report high school graduation rates in a uniform way instead of using a...nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 ...