Cities in Crisis 2008
A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation
Source: America's Promise Alliance
This report finds that only about half of all students served by the main school systems in the nation's 50 largest cities graduate from high school.
Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation released by America’s Promise Alliance and prepared by Editorial Projects in Education Research Center further reveals that in the metropolitan areas surrounding 35 of the nation’s largest cities, graduation rates in urban schools were lower than those in nearby suburban communities. In several instances, the disparity between urban-suburban graduation rates was more than 35 percentage points.
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Interest Area(s)
Dropout Prevention,
Effective Education,
High School
Nation Action Strategy
High School Graduation
Associated Promise(s)
Effective Education