Article: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT RELEASES NEWLY CALCULATED GRADUATION RATES FOR 2007

Article: Study: U. Texas-Arlington graduation rate too low
University Wire;  November 24, 2004 ;     609 words ......improving the University of Texas' graduation rate. Created early in the semester, the...ways to improve the university's low graduation rate. At the end of this semester, the...intend to implement them to improve our graduation rate," Dr. Dunn said. A recent UT System...

Article: County's high school graduation rate tops 90%
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  September 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......School's Class of 2006 had the highest graduation rate - 98.4 percent - among the county...said. As a whole, the county average graduation rate for 2006 was 91.1 percent - up from...the prior academic year. The state graduation rate for 2006 was not available. The 2005...

Article: U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION SPELLINGS ANNOUNCES GUIDANCE TO ASSIST IN ESTABLISHING UNIFORM HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 23, 2008 ;     407 words ......accurate measure of the high school graduation rate that is comparable across States. The uniform high school graduation rate is a critical step toward improving...less prosper - with its abysmal graduation rate, particularly among minority...

Article: Graduation rate is deceptive.(Editorial)
The Boston Herald;  January 18, 2000 ;     589 words ......the year 2000 that the high school graduation rate should rise to 90 percent. Nothing...confusion of Goals 2000. With the graduation rate already in the 80s, raising it to...86 percent. But making an increased graduation rate an end in itself makes it far more...

Article: GRADUATION RATE: 81 PERCENT OF CLASS OF 2007 GRADUATED IN FOUR YEARS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 22, 2008 ;     507 words ......as freshmen, according to statewide graduation rate data released to the Board of Education...required to make or surpass a target graduation rate of 55 percent to make AYP. The Board...required to meet or surpass a four-year graduation rate of 60 percent, a five-year ...

Article: Letter to the Editor: Parsing the graduation rate misses point
New Haven Register;  April 23, 2007 ;     180 words ......mischaracterizing the way New Haven reports its graduation rate. It seems that whenever Mayo or the...length to defend New Haven's published graduation rate. His defense is a classic case of...In fact, one could argue that the graduation rate in New Haven is largely irrelevant...

Article: Florida's high school graduation rate is on a downward slide.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 28, 1999 ;     700+ words ...TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ Florida's high school graduation rate is on a downward slide, and Education...on an actual head count _ puts the graduation rate in 1997-98 at only 53 percent, well...devised a method of calculating the graduation rate to more accurately reflect what's...

Article: U. Oregon athletes' graduation rate not up to par
University Wire;  February 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......November 2006, represents the 1999-2000 graduation rate. The graduation rate is "based on a comparison of the number...System. That places the student-athlete graduation rate 16 percent below the student body average...

Article: CPS GRADUATION RATE JUMPS TO 72.1% FOR CLASS OF 2004.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  March 31, 2005 ;     238 words ......report Cincinnati Public Schools' graduation rate jumped 11 points to 72.1 percent for...of Education released the 2003-04 graduation rate for the district this week. The graduation rate was 61 percent for the class of 2003...

Article: GRADUATION RATE DECLINE HAS MANY VOICING ALARM
Evansville Courier & Press;  September 7, 2006 ;     445 words ......economic death sentence." Indiana's graduation rate has declined over the past decade...Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. graduation rate historically has been close to the...studied eight ways to calculate the graduation rate. Most formulas put Indiana's rate...

Article: Graduation Rate Rises Again To New High
The Culvert Chronicles;  August 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......York City's four-year high school graduation rate continues to push upward, as it has...comparisons with previous years, the City's graduation rate has risen 5.7 percentage points since...Vice President Peter McNally. "The graduation rate is a crucial indicator of whether...

Article: Under new formula, graduation rate dips Statewide figures for 2005-06 fall to 74.1 percent.(News)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  September 6, 2007 ;     311 words ......News Colorado's 2005-06 high school graduation rate, calculated under a new, tougher formula...Wednesday. The 2004-2005 statewide graduation rate was 80.1 percent. Under the new formula...which has the effect of reducing the graduation rate. Officials welcomed Wednesday's news...

Article: MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES THAT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE REACHES HISTORIC HIGH OF 60 PERCENT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......announced that the four-year high school graduation rate in New York City has reached 60...methodology retroactively to 2002, the graduation rate of New York City students has risen...City has made impressive gains in its graduation rate. At a luncheon at the headquarters...

Article: Graduation rate for blacks: 48.5%
Post-Tribune (IN);  June 21, 2006 ;     525 words ......Research Center. The state's overall graduation rate was 73 percent for the 2002-03...significantly lower than the 91 percent graduation rate the state reported. Black students had a 48.5 percent graduation rate, and Hispanic students' graduation...