NM has second-worst graduation rate in nation, new report says
By Trip Jennings
06/04/2008
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A new report out shows that New Mexico has the second-worst graduation rate in the country.
According to the report, which is in Education Week, fewer students in New Mexico's class of 2005 graduated with their peers than students in virtually every other state in the union, except Nevada.
Here's an excerpt from the report:
Nationwide, about 71 percent of 9th graders make it to graduation four years later, according to data on the class of 2005, the latest available. That figure drops to 58 percent for Hispanics, 55 percent for African-Americans, and only 51 percent for Native Americans. While more than eight in 10 students graduate on time in Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wisconsin, that rate drops to fewer than six in 10 in the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, and South Carolina.
The press release announcing the report also has a link to a cool map that allows you to see what the graduation rates are for local districts.
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Posted 06/04/2008 17:08 with
Does anyone else find this abysmal?
I’m an author and when I travel to other states, I always have the sense that more people read in, say, Illinois than New Mexico. I think this has to do with a basic respect for the written word and IMHO that comes from having a decent education.
What’s going on here? I used the tool to find out APS’s grad rate and it’s 49%. To me, that is so incredibly unacceptable. It just stinks.
Seems to be there are Many Children Left Behind in NM.
We should be ashamed of these numbers.