Of the 5 million black and Hispanic students who enter U.S. public high schools each year, approximately 2.2 million will drop out before earning a diploma. Of the 2.8 million who manage to graduate, at least 2.4 million are unable to perform proficiently in mathematics, and at least 2.56 million are unable to read proficiently. In Americas public high schools, 45% of black students and 43% of Hispanics (as compared to 22% of whites) drop out before their classes graduate. Dropout rates are especially high in urban areas with large minority populations, including such academic basket cases as the District of Columbia (57%), Trenton (59%), Camden (61.4%), Baltimore (65.4%), Cleveland (65.9%), and Detroit (75.1%). Of those black and Hispanic students who do manage to earn a diploma, a large percentage are functionally illiterate. Black high-school graduates perform, on average, at a level that is four academic years below that of their white counterparts. Of all graduates in the class of 2011, only 11% of blacks and 15% of Hispanics were proficient in math, as compared to 42% of whites. Similarly, just 13% of blacks and 4% of Hispanics were proficient in reading, versus 40% of whites.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:15:49 +0000
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