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School Dropouts We are committed to generating and synthesizing research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that have been neglected or overlooked. Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in TexasDaniel Losen, Gary Orfield, and Robert Balfanz. October 7, 2006 The most accurate method for tracking high school graduation rates is to provide each student with a single lifetime school identification number that would follow him or her throughout his or her entire school career. Texas has this system in place, but this report demonstrates that the official rates Texas has historically reported dramatically inflated graduation rates and other extended year measures of high school completion as much or more than most states lacking this capacity.
Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in California May 25, 2005 Every year, across the country, a dangerously high percentage of students?disproportionately poor and minority?disappear from the educational pipeline before graduating from high school. Nationally, only about 68% of all students who enter 9th grade will graduate ?on time? with regular diplomas in 12th grade. While the graduation rate for white students is 75%, only approximately half of Black, Latino, and Native American students earn regular diplomas alongside their classmates. Graduation rates are even lower for Black, Latino and Native American males. Yet, because of misleading and inaccurate reporting of dropout and graduation rates, the public remains largely unaware of this educational and civil rights crisis.
Dropouts in the South: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis May 19, 2005 This conference addressed an urgent social issue that has, until recently, been largely invisible: the alarming numbers of students?disproportionately poor and minority?who either drop out, or leave high school without a diploma, yet are unaccounted for. According to a study released by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) and the Urban Institute last year, only 68% of the nation?s students graduated on-time from high school with regular diplomas in 2001. For minority students, the news is worse; only 50% of Blacks, 51% of Native Americans, and 53% of Latinos graduated alongside their peers that year.
Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in the South Johanna Wald and Daniel Losen. May 17, 2005 The South is a critical region to examine because it has a very large and rapidly growing population and has always been home to a majority of African Americans. In addition, several southern states are now in the epicenter of a huge Latino migration. The region also has a history of racial inequality including unlawful school segregation. As pointed out in this report, two independent studies show a high correlation between racially and socio-economically segregated schools and very low graduation rates. Not surprisingly, the research shows that poor, racially isolated Whites have low graduation rates that are nearly identical to poor, racially isolated Blacks. Nationally, few predominantly White schools have concentrated poverty, but there are significant numbers of these in parts of the rural South.
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