During her tenure, the graduation rate has increased by 30 percentage points.
"Report Finds Signs of Progress in Tackling School Dropout Rates" (news article, Nov. 30) notes that America's high school graduation rate has increased to 75 percent in 2008 from 72 percent in 2001.
Also, the district's graduation rate has increased by double digits to 77.7percentt, a historic high.
While these initiatives may have helped, education experts are still pondering why the graduation rate has increased.
Over time, as the graduation rate has increased, NAEP has included more students who would have dropped out in previous years.
UC Irvine's applications for undergraduate admissions have risen more than 90% since Drake's appointment, and the four-year graduation rate has increased by more than 19%, according to the university's website.
For instance, over the past decade, the percentage of students meeting provincial standards in the annual literacy and numeracy tests for grades three and six has risen from 54percentto71percentcent, and the high school graduation rate has increased from 68percentto83percentcent.
Taking transfer students into account, the six-year graduation rate at Paul Quinn has increased to 27 percent, from 6 percent when Mr. Sorrell took the job.
Duncan has increased graduation rates and boosted the total number of college scholarships secured by CPS students to $157 million.
To increase physician training, 58 medical schools have opened in SSA since 1990, and the total estimated graduation from all medical schools has increased from 7,861 graduates in 2008 to an estimated 10,000-11,000 medical students each year in 2011 [ 3].
