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... and African American graduation rates, there remains a sizable graduation gap between white and minority students in many states. Currently, 40 states have double digit graduation gaps between white and African American students. In Minnesota, for example, the graduation gap between white and black students is 35 points, and 33 ...
Saymirah Cornelius-McClam, an 8th grader at Rainier Scholars, hopes to one day become a forensic scientist. She told NewsHour, "Without this help that I'm getting now, I probably would be totally confused in a couple of years." Photo by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour While the gap in graduation ...
... 19 year olds are not in school and do not have a high school diploma, and they called for a redoubling of efforts to close graduation gaps among minority and poor students, English-language learners, homeless students and students with disabilities. Obama also emphasized there was more work to do ...
... Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images. Ahead of Thursday's tipoff of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, a study has found anew that the gap in the graduation rate between white and black players remains wide. The annual report, "Keeping Score When It Counts," by the Institute for Diversity ...
... somewhat for minority students, but the differences remain glaring: 72.5 percent of African-American males finish high school on time, even as the national graduation rates reached a record high of 82 percent in 2013-14 (the latest year available). The gap in graduation rates between black and white ...
... and patience and hard work.” In 2008, the administrators gathered a group of 35 Latino students over pizza and talked to them about the big gap in graduation rates between white and Latino students. The students were surprised and disturbed. They formed their own leadership team and began working with ...
... not graduating. JOHN BRIDGELAND: It's true. JEFFREY BROWN: So, there is a lot left to do. JOHN BRIDGELAND: There is. And, in fact, the gaps between graduation rates of low-income students and their middle- and higher-income peers up 20 percentage points or up to 30 percentage points ...
... t even answer a basic question around what is the percentage of Pell students that graduate each year. Hari Sreenivasan: The report, called, The Pell Divide, found an 18 percent gap in the graduation rate between students who use Pell Grants and those who don't. But there were exceptions.
JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, the third report in our new series on education issues from grade school to college. Last night's was on Florida's mandatory testing for high school graduation. Tonight: The gender gap on college campuses. Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting has the story. (Cheers and ...
Rahm Emanuel: By integrating the community college system, we're ensuring an integration that kids do not fall between the gap between high school and graduation and whatever else they do in life. Hari Sreenivasan: But some ask if the new advisers have the qualifications needed. Kristy Brooks: What are ...
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