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High school dropout rates hard to verify

Categories: Teens & tweens, Media, Education

Nearly 1 in 3 high school students in the American Class of 2006 will not graduate this year, according to new research released yesterday.

But the high school graduation statistic is notoriously difficult to verify: drastically fluctuating graduation rates in different geographic areas cause statistics to skew.  Education experts say that none of the current research on graduation rates is entirely accurate.

Jack Jennings, of the Center on Education policy, notes that accurate reporting is needed "before we can fashion some solution."

At the bottom of the article are the graduation rates in 50 of the largest school districts in the United States.  Detroit has the lowest graduation rate (21.7%) while Fairfax County has the highest. (82.5%)

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