Rethinking High School Graduation Rates & Trends.Rethinking High School Graduation Rates & Trends Lawrence Mishel Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., a liberal policy think-tank that seeks to advance the interests of American workers. He has been at EPI since 1987, first serving as Research Director, then as Vice-president and in 2002 became & Joydeep Roy Economic Policy Institute 1333 H Street, NW, Suite 300, East Tower, Washington DC 20005 1932066241 $13.50 www.epi.org 202-775-8810 Written by Economic Policy Institute (a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank) members Lawrence Mishel and Joydeep Roy, Rethinking High School Graduation Rates & Trends is a serious-minded re-examination of modern statistical data. In an increasingly knowledge-driven and globalized economy, people without a high school diploma A high school diploma is a diploma awarded for the completion of high school. In the United States and Canada, it is considered the minimum education required for government jobs and higher education. An equivalent is the GED. are at a disadvantage--but modern scholars disagree upon the precise rate of graduation in U.S. high schools. Rethinking High School Graduation Rates & Trends scrutinizes current sources of statistical data on high school completion and dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates, taking into account the findings of the Census Bureau Household Survey, historical trends, the General Education Development (GED GED abbr. 1. general equivalency diploma 2. general educational development GED (US) n abbr (Scol) (= general educational development) → ) issue and more to draw mixed conclusions. On the one hand, graduation rates are unquestionably un·ques·tion·a·ble adj. Beyond question or doubt. See Synonyms at authentic. un·ques  tion·a·bil in need of
improvement; on the other, they are higher than presupposed, and getting
better. An extensively researched guide devoted to clearly defining the
extent of the troubling national problem of high school dropout rates,
without overstating its volume or understating its importance.
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