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Thursday, March 20, 2008
The mystery of graduation rates
In today’s New York Times, Sam Dillon takes a run at an age-old problem: Graduation rates. States have never been consistent about how they calculate graduation rates, which creates confusion and sometimes leads to false comparisons or inaccurate impressions.
For some states, that’s just fine with them.
The federal government requires one method of reporting. States dutifully send up the data, while keeping their own, in many cases nicer looking, numbers to share with the public in their states.
There is an honest debate over graduation rate calculation methods. And in many states the data systems just aren’t up to keeping track of every student in a way that would give truly useful numbers.
Should it really be this hard to figure out how many kids graduate?
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