{"id":2760,"date":"2008-04-01T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/only-1-of-2-students-graduate-high-school-in-us-cities\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:43:08","slug":"only-1-of-2-students-graduate-high-school-in-us-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/only-1-of-2-students-graduate-high-school-in-us-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=080401184532.kxjxy7xo&#038;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a> | Apr. 1, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance also showed that the high school graduation rate &#8212; finishing 12 grades of school &#8212; in big cities falls to as low as just 34.6 percent in Baltimore, Maryland, and barely over 40 percent for the troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p>And it said that black and native American student&#8217;s have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our analysis finds that graduating from high school in America&#8217;s largest cities amounts, essentially, to a coin toss,&#8221; the study said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only about one-half (52 percent) of students in the principal school systems of the 50 largest cities complete high school with a diploma.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=080401184532.kxjxy7xo&#038;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP | Apr. 1, 2008 Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}