High School Graduation Rates
The graduation rate improved in the 2000s, according to a March
report by Johns Hopkins University and two partner organizations. While the U.S. dropout rate remains higher than in most other industrialized countries, 75.5 percent of high school students graduated in 2009, up from 72 percent in 2001. That, says the report, will mean higher earnings and better skills for the thousands of additional students who graduated during the 2000s, and stronger future economic growth for the country as a whole.
