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FYI > > > Subject: NEW NCES REPORT! - Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004 > > > This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics > (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. > It presents estimates of rates for 2004, and provides data about trends in > dropout and completion rates over the last three decades (1972-2004), > including characteristics of dropouts and completers in these years. Among > other findings, the report shows that in students living in low-income > families were approximately four times more likely to drop out of high school > between 2003 and 2004 than were their peers from high-income families. > Focusing on indicators of on-time graduation from public high schools, the > averaged freshman graduation rate for the 3 most recent years for which data > are available shows an increase from 72.6 percent for 2001-02 to 73.9 percent > for 2002-03 to 74.3 percent for 2003-04. > > To download, view and print the publication as a PDF file, please visit: > http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007024 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You have received this message because you subscribed to the > IES/NCES Newsflash Service. > > To change your options or unsubscribe from this mailing, go to > http://ies.ed.gov/newsflash/?email=selete%2Eavoke%40ed%2Egov > > By visiting Newsflash you may also sign up to receive information from > IES and its four Centers NCES, NCER, NCEE, & NCSER to stay abreast > of all activities within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). > > To obtain hard copy of many IES/NCES products as well as hard copy and > electronic versions of hundreds of other U.S. Department of Education > products please visit http://www.edpubs.org or call 1-877-433-7827 > (877-4-EDPUBS). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ End of Forwarded Message
