Young Black America Part One: High School Completion Rates are at their Highest Ever

Cherrie Bucknor

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Abstract: By most measures, the educational attainment of blacks is currently at the highest it has ever been. After decades of stagnation, high school completion rates for blacks have increased rapidly since 2000. This issue brief will focus on the high school status completion rates of blacks ages 20 to 24 since 1975.

Keywords: education; high school graduation; inequality; racial disparties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I2 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2015-03
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