Is Philadelphia the leading big city in improved graduation rates?

by Ruth Curran Neild

It seems that barely six months go by without the release of new statistics on high school dropouts in Philadelphia, most of them sobering. Far too many of Philadelphia’s public high school students do not earn a diploma. And so, in a report issued last week by the research arm of Education Week, it was a bit of a shock for Philadelphia to be identified as the exemplar of a city that can improve its high school graduation rate – allegedly, even dramatically so.

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