Dropouts in the South: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis
Organization:
The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, Hosted by Spelman College
Category:
Educational/Academia
Geographical Area:
Atlanta
Start
Date:
5/19/2005
End Date:
5/19/2005
Start Time:
8 am
End Time:
4 pm
Event
Info:
Free and Open to the Public but must pre-register at http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/registration/Dropouts_South.php
This conference will address an urgent social issue that has, until recently, been largely invisible: the alarming numbers of students—disproportionately poor and minority—who either drop out, or leave high school without a diploma, yet are unaccounted for. According to a study released by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) and the Urban Institute last year, only 68% of the nation’s students graduated on-time from high school with regular diplomas in 2001. For minority students, the news is worse only 50% of Blacks, 51% of Native Americans, and 53% of Latinos graduated alongside their peers that year.
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