Every year, more than 1 million students drop out of high school.  If that trend continues, over the next 10 years, it will cost the nation more than $3 trillion in lost wages, productivity and taxes.  It costs individuals even more, it costs them their economic future and their self respect. more…

Graduation Rate

Black and Hispanic students both have graduation rates of about 57 percent.  More females (75 percent) graduated than males (68 percent) across all ethnicities.

Congress also recently introduced the "Every Student Counts Act," which would set a graduation rate goal of 90 percent, with schools expected to increase their rates by 3 percentage points each year.  How schools are to reach this goal remains unclear as the trend for decades has not been encouraging, despite government statistics that imply progress.  The statistical issue is that government statistics include GED certificates in recent years.  The fact is that the USA was #1 in graduation rates in the 1960's and is now a distant 13th and falling.

US Graduation rates peaked in 1969 at 77%. In 2006 the rate was 69.2, 2009 was 69.3, barely unchanged.  Rates for non-whites and non-Asians are particularly discouraging.

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