A National Database Has….

been created with help from the Education Week people on the high school dropout problem.

The Washing Post looks at the local area and the article states that Margret Spellings says that half of the high school dropouts come from a small group of largely urban schools.

Prince George’s County schools reported a 90 percent graduation rate for 2003, but the new database only lists them at 67%. Montgomery schools on the other list a 93% graduation rate while the database lists an 82% graduation rate.

To help get to the database go here: http://maps.edweek.org/

IMO I hope this database has a much better calculation of the high school graduation rate. We do need one national way to calculate this number badly.