Kudos to the Standard and Poor’s SchoolMatters website for reporting the Manhattan Institute and Urban Institute graduation rates.
While North Carolina reported a graduation rate of 92.4%, the Manhattan Institute Cohort Rate was 67% and the Urban Institute Cumulative Promotion Index was 64.7%. Which one of these is not like the others…
States and the U.S. Department of Education have conspired for years to inflate the graduation rate. Only recently have organizations like the National Governors Association called for more accurate reporting of graduation rates. This is a step in the right direction.
