Straight Talk on Detroit Schools
Sometimes, it can be near impossible to get straight talk on education statistics. Just talk a look at a simple topic like high school graduation rates. Most urban school systems, those that are homes to many of our dropout factories, will say their official graduation rates are in the 80 - 90 percent range (offering a convoluted formula of who counts, who doesn't, and such). Talk to high school critics like Jay Greene, and those same grad rates will be 20 - 25 percent lower. Same data, different formulas, severely different results.
Over at Fortune magazine, the editors are profiling the "visionaries" of the rebirth of Detroit. One of the Motor
