Report: Kids less likely to graduate than parents
| October 23, 2008 |  View for printing |
Your child is less likely to graduate from high school than you were, and most states are doing little to hold schools accountable, according to a study by a children's advocacy group.
More than half the states have graduation targets that don't make schools get better, the Education Trust says in a report released Thursday.
And dropout rates haven't budged: One in four kids is still dropping out of high school.
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