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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (753104)11/16/2013 8:34:25 PM
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An educated population is over-rated anyway...

For certain cities - it sure seems that way.

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Recent research disseminated in a report by America’s Promise Alliance makes it clear that the United States is in the midst of a high school drop-out crisis of staggering proportions. The details are alarming:

  • Every 26 seconds another student gives up on school, resulting in more than one million American high school students who drop out every year.
  • In urban public schools that serve primarily low income and Latino or African American youth, between 40% and 60% of entering freshman do not graduate from high school.
  • Nationally, 40% of African American, 33% of Latino and 8% of Caucasian students attend a high school with a 40% or higher drop out rate.
In Chicago, public school students are at even greater risk than the national average:

  • 65.4% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate from high school in four years.
  • Only 38% of African-American males in Chicago earn a diploma compared to the national average of 48%.
  • Over 38% of Chicago high school students are at risk of dropping out each year. 50.9% of African-American Males are at risk.
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