Experts: Graduation Rates Low, Falling in the South
Experts warned Southern education leaders meeting here that falling graduation rates may threaten the region's progress in improving students' test scores, access to preschool, and other advances in recent years in the poorest region of the United States.
"Our achievement's going up, but our graduation rate is going down in many places," Gene Bottoms, the senior vice president of the Southern Regional Education Board, said here at the group's annual conference as he released a report on the South's low graduation rates. A portion of the region’s campuses "in some ways look very much like third-world-country high schools," Mr. Bottoms said.
State lawmakers, education chiefs, and others heard the stern warnings here June 27 at the SREB's annual meeting and legislative work conference June 25-28. The SREB is an Atlanta-based compact of 16 states that provides state officials with nonpartisan...
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