New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that in 2008 there were 415,111 black graduates at public high schools in the United States. Only 61.5 percent of black students who were high school freshmen four years earlier earned their high school diploma in 2008. For white students, the high school graduation rate was 81.0 percent.
via JBHE: Latest News for 6/17/10.
It’s worth noting that the graduation rate of Black youth in Toronto (home to Canada’s largest African-descent population) is somewhere between 50 and 60%.
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