Some good news came out today on the education front. Tennessee has led the way among Southern states that have increased high school graduation rates this decade, according to a study by the Southern Regional Education Board that was reported in Education Week. And furthermore:
To be sure, the SREB report does contain points of concern:
In discussing the results for Tennessee, the SREB points out that particularly strong gains in graduation rates were seen in the 105,000-student Memphis city school system and the 42,000-student Hamilton County system, which is based in Chattanooga. (emphasis added)As the Education Week story points out, these results of improvement contrast with a similar SREB report in 2005 that "concluded that graduation rates in many Southern states were low and slipping." The report out today comes a few months after the U.S. Department of Education found that the performance gap is shrinking between black and white students in the South.
To be sure, the SREB report does contain points of concern:
At the same time, more than one in four 9th graders in the region still are not graduating on time, and the recent gains only bring the South close to the same level it saw in the early 1990s, says the SREB, an Atlanta-based compact of 16 states.So what does it all mean? The high school dropout rate has deep implications both socially and economically, according to a couple of other recent studies. One found that dropouts from the class of 2009 alone with cost the state of Tennessee $6.5 billion in lost income over their lifetimes. Another found that one in 10 young male high school dropouts will be in a jail or detention on a given day -- a figure that climbs to one in four for young black male dropouts.
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