{"id":158,"date":"2012-11-28T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2012-11-28T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:44:08","slug":"economics-and-4-year-graduation-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Economics and 4 year graduation rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education released preliminary data this week on 4-year high school graduation rates, and, not surprisingly, they show the impact of economics. Overall, 83% of students in Conn. graduated in four years. For &#8220;economically challenged&#8221; students, the rate was 69%. You can find the chart listing all 50 states <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/press-releases\/state-2010-11-graduation-rate-data.pdf\">here<\/a>. And here&#8217;s Kaomi Goetz&#8217;s story on the report:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kg_grad-rates_121126.mp3'>kg_grad-rates_121126<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first year in which all 50 states used a common metric.More than half of all states reported lower graduation rates under the new measure \u2013 but officials say the new results shouldn\u2019t be read as measures of progress or failure, but as a more accurate picture.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education released preliminary data this week on 4-year high school graduation rates, and, not surprisingly, they show the impact of economics. Overall, 83% of students in Conn. graduated in four years. For &#8220;economically challenged&#8221; students, the rate was 69%. You can find the chart listing all 50 states here. And here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}