The american high school graduation rate
Subtitle: trends and levels
By: James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine.
Contributors: LaFontaine, Paul A.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13670; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13670.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S.  high school graduation rate.  Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the official rate issued by the National Center for Educational Statistics; (b) it has been declining over the past 40 years; (c) majority/minority graduation rate differentials are substantial and have not converged over the past 35 years; (d) the decline in high school graduation rates occurs among native populations and is not solely a consequence of increasing proportions of immigrants and minorities in American society; (e) the decline in high school graduation explains part of the recent slowdown in college attendance; and (f) the pattern of the decline of high school graduation rates by gender helps to explain the recent increase in male-female college attendance gaps"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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