Education Week (6/8, Swanson) reports that education stakeholders seeking to end the "US dropout crisis" have seen scant signs of encouragement in recent years, "perhaps, until now. A new analysis of high school completion from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds that the national graduation rate stands at 71.7 percent for the class of 2008, the most recent year for which data are available. The highest level of graduation for the nation's public high schools since the 1980s, this result also marks a significant turnaround following two consecutive years of declines and stagnation." However, notwithstanding this data, "the fact is that too many students continue to fall through the cracks of America's high schools. We project that, nearly 1.2 million students from this year's high school class will fail to graduate with a diploma."
Several newspapers around the country cover the local aspects of Education Week's report, including the Bangor Daily News (6/8, Cousins), the Morning Sentinel (ME) (6/8, Bouchard), the Raleigh News & Observer (6/8, Christensen), the Brattleboro (VT) Reformer (6/8, Weiss-Tisman), the New Orleans Times-Picayune (6/8, Alpert), the Deseret (UT) News (6/8, Farmer), WTOP-FM Washington, DC (6/8, Ryan), the Washington Post (6/8, Mathews), and the Casper (WY) Star Tribune (6/8, Borchardt).
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