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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 CaliforniaDan Losen and Johanna Wald. March 24, 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.
Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis Gary Orfield, Dan Losen and Johanna Wald. February 25, 2004 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 percent 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 percent, only approximately half of Black, Hispanic , and Native American students earn regular diplomas alongside their classmates. Graduation rates are even lower for minority 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.
Revisiting the Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education: Lessons about Dropout Research and Dropout Prevention Walt Haney. March 1, 2001 Research commissioned for conference Dropouts in America. This paper extends an examination of grade enrollment and high school graduation patterns in Texas presented in “The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education” (Haney, 2000). Using enrollment data from 1975-76 through 1999-2000, I examine the pattern apparent between flunking grade 9 and failure to persist in school to high school graduation.
Connecting Entrance and Departure: The Transition to Ninth Grade and High School Dropout Ruth Neild, Scott Stoner-Eby, Frank Furstenberg. January 13, 2001 Research commissioned for conference Dropouts in America. Of the dismal statistics about urban high schools, one of the most dramatic is the proportion of students who leave school without ever graduating. Dropout is not unique to urban public school systems, but it is undeniably in these districts that the highest rates of student dropout occur.
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