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Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth Are Being Left behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis
| العنوان: | Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth Are Being Left behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Orfield, Gary, Losen, Daniel, Wald, Johanna, Swanson, Christopher B., Harvard Civil Rights Project, Cambridge, MA., Urban Inst., Washington, DC., Advocates for Children of New York, Inc., Long Island City. |
| المصدر: | Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The). 2004. |
| الإتاحة: | Harvard Education Publishing Group, 8 Story Street, 1st Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 800-513-0763 (Toll Free); Tel: 617-495-3432; Fax: 617-496-3584; e-mail: hepg@harvard.edu; Web site: http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu. |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 97 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2004 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, MI. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | High Schools |
| Descriptors: | Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Graduation, High Schools, Education Work Relationship, Minority Groups, State Surveys, Accountability, Profiles, Civil Rights |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: | United States |
| مستخلص: | In an increasingly competitive global economy, the consequences of dropping out of high school are devastating to individuals, communities and our national economy. At an absolute minimum, adults need a high school diploma if they are to have any reasonable opportunities to earn a living wage. A community where many parents are dropouts is unlikely to have stable families or social structures. Most businesses need workers with technical skills that require at least a high school diploma. Yet, with little notice, the United States is allowing a dangerously high percentage of students to disappear from the educational pipeline before graduating from high school. Nationally, high school graduation rates are low for all students, with only an estimated 68% of those who enter 9th grade graduating with a regular diploma in 12th grade. According to the calculations used in this report, in 2001, only 50% of all black students, 51% of Native American students, and 53% of all Hispanic students graduated from high school. Black, Native American, and Hispanic males fare even worse: 43%, 47%, and 48% respectively. This report seeks to highlight these disparities to draw the public's and policymakers' attention to the urgent need to address this educational and civil rights crisis. Appended are: (1) State Profiles; (2) Methodology and Results of 50 State Survey of Graduation Rate Accountability; (3) Definitions of Terms; (4) National and State Graduation Rates; and (5) Promoting Power. (Contains 34 endnotes.) [This report also produced by the Civil Society Institute, (CSI), Newton, Massachusetts.] |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2005 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED489177 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| الوصف غير متاح. |