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Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis (2004)

This article asserts that the federally reported dropout statistics provide a false picture of high school graduation rates, and utilizes the Cumulative Promotion Index developed by The Urban Institute to provide more accurate information on graduation rates.

Organization: 

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, The Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York and The Civil Society Institute

Author: 

Orfield, Gary, Daniel Losen, Johanna Wald and Christopher B. Swanson

Date: 
Thu, 01/01/2004
Date: 
2004