Graduation “gap” widens in Maryland - College, Inc. - The Washington Post

Graduation “gap” widens in Maryland - College, Inc. - The Washington Post: A progress report from the Education Trust, a Washington nonprofit committed to narrowing achievement gaps, shows that graduation rates for low-income and minority students have gone down in Maryland over the past five years, while the completion rate for all students has gone up.

It’s not the sort of momentum Maryland needs to narrow the gap; ideally, the completion rate for all students would rise, and the rate for poor and minority students would rise even faster.

Between 2005 and 2010, the EdTrust report states, the graduation rate for all students in the University System of Maryland rose one point to 63 percent. In the same years, the completion rate for low-income students dipped three points to 48 percent. The rate for underrepresented minorities slipped three points to 43 percent.