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Graduation Rates

Duke Dominates on the Court and in the Classroom

Kati Haycock | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Kati Haycock

Duke is among a small, elite group of schools that, over the past two decades, have strong records both on and off the court.

Universities Should be Rated Based on Output, Like the Rest of Society

Elisa Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Elisa Stephens

What can higher education do? We can start by taking a "Jobs First" approach when it comes to serving our students and giving them the tools that they will need to compete for and win the jobs of the 21st Century.

Urban Prep 'Signing Day' Celebrates 100% Graduation Rate At All-Black High School

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Borrowing from a longstanding sports tradition, Englewood's Urban Prep Academy for Young Men held a signing day today for its 107 seniors -- all of wh...

Study: Grad Rates Between Blacks, Whites Widening

AP | ANTONIO GONZALEZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new study finds the disparity between graduation rates for white and black players on NCAA tournament-bound men's basketball t...

The HIGHEST Graduation Rates Among 4-Year Colleges (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Using U.S. Department of Education data, scholars at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research last year tabulated the highest and ...

Five Texas Colleges Have Graduation Rates Above 50%

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Texas has long championed an effort to increase state college enrollment rates. But data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for E...

Arne Duncan Has Become an Embarrassment

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Leonie Haimson

It's time for Obama to his appointee Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, in, before he causes yet further embarrassment to his administration.

Are the Rising Graduation Rates Real?

Clara Hemphill | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Clara Hemphill

The city boasts that nearly two-thirds of high school students graduated on time in 2008. But are the standards for graduating so low that the diplomas are meaningless, as skeptics claim?

More Bad Education News (And Some Bright Spots)

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Tom Vander Ark

For someone that spent most of the last 10 years working on this problem it is discouraging to see the grad rate dip this low.