Todays Kids Less Likely to Graduate Than Parents

Todays Kids Less Likely to Graduate Than Parents http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com A new report by the Education Trust child advocacy group reaches the alarming conclusion that todays children are less likely to graduate from high school than their parents were. One in four kids is still dropping out of high school, and among minority students, more than one in three drops out. "The U.S. is stagnating while other industrialized countries are surpassing us," said Anna Habash, author of the report. The United States is the only industrialized country where young people are less likely than their parents to earn a diploma, the report said. State and school officials are under pressure to improve test scores under the No Child Left Behind education law or face penalties. But they got a break on graduation rates: Schools must meet annual goals, but the government lets each state set its own goal. And in many states, the bar is set pretty low. The US has been slow to realize it was facing a dropout crisis. For years, researchers reported dropouts as the number of kids who quit school in 12th grade, failing to capture those who left high school earlier.

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