Texas Posts Fourth Highest High School Graduation Rate in Nation
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While schools in Texas have long had a less-than-sterling reputation, new data from the U.S. Department of Education suggests that the state has one of the highest high school graduation rates in the country.Texas, with an 86 percent high school graduate rate, ranked alongside Tennessee, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Indiana. Only four states—Iowa, Wisconsin, and Vermont—had higher rates. This represents a marked improvement over 2007, when Texas’s high school graduate rate was only 78 percent.
Michael Williams, the Texas education commissioner, had praise for the results, reported Morgan Smith, who covers education for the Texas Tribune. “This state-by-state comparison confirms what Texas educators have been saying for a long time,” Williams said in a statement. “Our public schools are delivering a high quality education and our students are having great success.”
Lindsay Kastner of the San Antonio Express-News pointed out that all 50 states calculated their graduation rates employing the same methodology (the one Texas has used for ten years) for the first time during 2010-2011 school year. But some called that methodology into question. According to Smith:
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Mark701
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It's not whether you graduate, it's what you've learned. Isn't Texas the state whose education board removed Alexander Hamilton from their history books because he was too liberal?
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