Report forecasts drop in HS grad. numbers
For the first time in 14 years, rejected college applicants this year will have a hard time blaming unfavorable demographics for their “we regret to inform you” letters.
National graduation rates have skyrocketed since 1994 at the same time that schools have witnessed a comparable expansion of the college-applicant pool, in what a recent College Board/ACT study called a second baby boom. But according to a report released last week by those two organizations and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the 2008-’09 academic year will be the first in the past 14 years...
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