graduation rate

Guess Which State Has The Best High School Graduation Rate?

By • Jun 9, 2015

The national high school graduation rate is an impressive 81 percent. So impressive, President Obama highlighted it in his State of the Union address this year: "Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high."

Sound the trumpets. This is a really big deal. There's just one problem: The president didn't explain how we got here. For the past few months, the NPR Ed Team and reporters from member stations in more than a dozen states have been digging into these numbers to find out.

Technical College Rethinks Approach to Remedial Education

By Maura Walz • Jan 8, 2013
Athens Technical College math professor Vidya Nahar assists a student in her newly re-designed learning support math course.
Maura Walz / Southern Education Desk

Georgia higher education officials have a goal: by 2020, they want 60 percent of young adults in the state to earn some kind of college credential.

They’ve got a long way to go. In 2011, just over 36 percent of 24 to 34-year-olds in that state had earned an Associates Degree or better, about another 6 percent have a certificate.

LSU Graduation Rate Reaches All-Time High

By Lisa Lovello • Oct 24, 2012

Louisiana State University announced Wednesday a record 67 percent of students who started college in 2006 graduated within six years. That’s up from 62 percent of the cohort that started in 2005.