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From Economic Policy Institute: High school completion rates have been consistently going up over the last 20 years, according to a U.S. Department of Education analysis. The results from the last three surveys show a 5.8 percentage-point decline in the number of high school sophomores who left school without graduating within the following two years. While Asian sophomores have a dropout rate of 3.8% and white sophomores have a dropout rate of 6.0%, the corresponding rates for blacks and Hispanics are 10.8% and 12.7%, respectively. With high school graduation getting a lot of attention in policy debates and in the media, educators and policy makers should celebrate these gains in high school completion and build on this success to narrow the racial gaps.
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