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Black Male Grad Rates: Despair, And A Ray Of Hope : NPR

Black Male Grad Rates: Despair, And A Ray Of Hope : NPR

Black Male Grad Rates: Despair, And A Ray Of Hope

A new study reports that only 47 percent of black male students entering high school in the fall of 2003 graduated in 2008. For white males, the graduation rate was 78 percent. But one state, New Jersey, managed to raise its black male graduation rate by nearly 30 points