A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America's largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation – more than seventy percent -- in areas surrounding the cities.
The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center prepared the report.
Researchers studied high school graduation rates from the two thousand three, two thousand four school year. They also identified the nation's fifty largest cities. The largest, New York City, had a population of more than eight million. The smallest city was Wichita, Kansas. It had about three hundred sixty thousand people.
Researchers used a system of measurement called the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates. School officials in many of the cities studied say the resulting numbers were too low. That is because different areas use different methods to find graduation rates. Critics say many methods do not give a true picture of the number of students who leave high school before finishing.
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