The African American high school graduation crisis

p African American High School Graduation Crisis

Introduction

Many researchers have carried out independent studies to understand the African American graduation crisis in the U .S . These researchers have reported significantly lower rates of African American students graduating compared to those officially reported by Texas Education Agency . These are evidenced by various statistics indicating the contradiction hence efforts have been made to combat these disparities It is very vital that the nation 's graduate rate is measured by considering the number of students who graduate in comparison to those who

don 't . Ruth Neild and Liza Herzog 's recent nationwide study of dropout /graduation rate indicate that almost half of the nation 's dropout rate is constituted by 15 of the nation 's high schools (Balfanz 1

The National U .S graduation rate as documented by both the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES ) have been in contention on the exact national graduation rate and what system of evaluation is applied to reach at the said figures . Issues have also come up on which evaluation system best gives precise results (Holland , High School Crisis : 3 in 10 Drop Out

Recent studies in the graduation Crisis

Coppola in his Texus graduation rate report indicates that approximately 67 of all students are graduating statewide whereby , just 60 of them are the African Americans but the contradicting Texus Education Agency Official report indicates that 81 .1 of the African American population graduates yearly . Other reports based on research conducted by Magnus Lofstrom and John Tyler which used longitudinal data to calculate how many students enrolled in a Texas public school at age 15 through 20years confirmed recent graduation rates of 67 statewide Losen , Orfield , and Balfanz , Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in Texas

It is argued that the official graduation rates reported by the state are unjustifiably inflated by these stainable exaggerated figures by removing too many students from the cohort count . Efforts have been made to confront this graduation rate crisis through publications by various scholars who are interested in combating this crisis ( Losen Orfield , and Balfanz , Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in Texas

A researcher now at the University of Texas analyzed six years of longitudinal

Student-level data from a large urban district in the state , and found out that according to his Urban Minority students reports in 2001 graduation rate stipulated that 32 of students graduated yet only 39 .4 African Americans graduated within five years . He compared this to the 49 .4 represented by Asian American students who marked the highest percentage of graduation rate . They were followed by the white students whose graduation rate was at 43 .3 (Vasquez , urban minority students

Low Graduation Rate of African Americans

The research findings indicate that the 2000 nationwide high schools do not have proper mechanisms of promoting students . Actually the senior students are about 60 relatively fewer than their juniors . The study reveals that half of these schools are located in urban areas with...