Education Week: Study: Fewer Than Half of Black Males Graduate on Time: Only 47 percent of America’s black males graduate from high school on time, according to a new report from a philanthropic organization.
The report is the fourth such biennial accounting by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Schott Foundation for Public Education.
Based on federal, district, and state data, the foundation reported that 53 percent of African-American males did not graduate with their peers in the 2007-08 school year. In contrast, 78 percent of white males graduated from high school on time, an increase of 3 percentage points since the foundation’s last report, in 2008. ('Schott Foundation to Step Up Advocacy for Black Males,' August 5, 2008.)
The findings closely mirror those in a June report from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. That report, using federal data from the 2006-07 school year, found that just 46.7 percent of African-American male students graduated that year, compared with 73.7 percent of their white male counterparts.
