One team of statisticians working at the state education headquarters here recently calculated the official graduation rate at a respectable 87 percent, which Mississippi reported to Washington. But in another office piled with computer printouts, a second team of number crunchers came up with a different rate: a more sobering 63 percent.
By SAM DILLON
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/education/20graduation.html?_r=1&oref=slogin