A new formula designed to more accurately calculate graduation rates continued to see drops in Douglas County and across Nevada, according to a Nevada Department of Education report. But even though ...

States are bracing for plummeting high school graduation rates as they dump flawed measurement formulas that undercount dropouts and produce inflated results. Education wonks long have suspected the ...

The No Child Left Behind Act broke new ground in 2002 by mandating that accountability decisions under the law take into account high school graduation rates along with test-score performance when ...

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The state superintendent of public instruction said Virginia provides better guidance about reporting school crimes than graduation rates. Comparing graduation rates among Virginia public school ...