Editorial: High School Dropout Rates At All-Time Low For Black & Hispanic Students

Here’s some good news you probably won’t read a lot about: Black and Latino students have cut their dropout rates by more than half over the past ten years. Black students have nearly closed the gap with white students with just 8% leaving high school last year.

According to a new Pew Research Center report, these declines have driven the lowest U.S. dropout rate ever recorded, with just 7% of 18 to 24-year-olds leaving school in the last year.

This good news raises a lot of interesting questions, namely, why is it so underreported & why does the media put so much attention on the failings of Black youth instead of investigating what interventions have driven the increase in high school graduation.

News sources courtesy of Pew Research Center & NewsOne!!!