Diplomas Count 2010: Graduation by the Numbers

Executive Summary

Perhaps it’s a cliché, but it’s also true: Knowledge is power.

When the public considers schools, the focus is usually on how they build knowledge in children. The attention is on outcomes: subjects learned, books read, math problems solved, historical facts memorized, diplomas granted. But there is another side to the schools-and-knowledge relationship. And that is how schools come to know their students—their strengths, their weaknesses, and, when it turns to high school, their likelihood of someday graduating.

Every year, Diplomas Count takes a careful look at nationwide trends related to high school graduation. This year, we ...

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