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


Daphne Greenberg
Assistant Professor
Educational Psych. & Special Ed.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
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Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3977
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu