Separate and Unequal
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Separate and Unequal
High School Years
• The percentage of African-Americans graduating from high school decreased between 1991 and 2005
• Blacks nearly twice , Hispanics more than three times as likely to drop out of high school than Whites
• More than half of Black men living in inner cities do not finish high school o Among Black dropouts
• 72 % of males in their 20s were jobless
• More Blacks in their late 20s are in prison on a given day ( 34 %) than are working ( 30 %)
Racial Disparities in High School Dropout Rates
• Half of the nation ' s African American and Latino students are dropping out of high school , with the most severe problems are in segregated high poverty schools .
• Of schools with minority populations of at least 50 %, half have dropout rates over 40 percent
• Of schools comprised of at least 90 % minority students , twothirds of these schools have dropout rates of more than 40 %.
• 88 percent of high minority schools are high poverty schools ( 50 percent of the students are on free and reduced lunch )
• About 1.4 million black students and nearly 1 million Latino students attend schools that are almost all minority ( defined as being between 90-100 % minority )
Higher Education
• According to the National Black Caucus of State Legislators ( 2001 ), 30 of every 100 white kindergartners go on to graduate from college , while only 16 of every 100 black kindergartners later earn bachelor ' s degrees .
• 80 % of Blacks have HS degree , Only 17 % have a Bachelors
• Only 9 . 1 % of college degrees in 2002-03 academic year were awarded to Blacks
• Among persons 18 to 24 years of age , the lowest college enrollment rates are for black males ( 26.5 %) and Hispanic males ( 21.7 %)
• Black women outnumber Black men in college at a ratio of nearly 2 : 1
• Less than 1 / 3 of Black men enrolled graduate within 6 years ( Center for College Affordability )
Global Education Rankings High School Completion
• In 2004 , 87 % of the U . S . population between 25-34 years old had completed high school , a figure well above average but has changed little over the years . o However , in more than half of all ranked countries , the proportion of 25-to-34-year olds with at least a high school education now exceeds 80 %, and in Canada , the Czech Republic , Japan , Korea , Norway , the Slovak Republic and Sweden it exceeds 90 %
• The change over time in the United States ranking in high school completion can be clearly seen when looking at different age cohorts . o The United States ranks first among the 30 ranked countries in the high school educational attainment of 55-to-64- year-olds ( i . e . those who completed high school some 40 years ago ) but only 11th among 25-to-34-year-olds , who completed high school a decade ago . o By contrast , Korea ranks 24th among 55-to-64-year-olds but 1st among 25-to-34-year-olds . o The US has slipped to # 16 in high school graduation , and 9th in postsecondary enrollments .
College Graduation
• Although the college graduation rate for the United States increased slightly between 2000-2004 , ( from 33 % to 34 %), it was slightly below the average college graduation rate and well below the highest rates of over 45 % reported by Australia , Denmark , Finland , Iceland , New Zealand and Norway .
• Current rates of college participation suggest that even more countries are likely to catch up and surpass the United States graduation rates . The number of students enrolled in college in the United States increased 21 % between 1995 and 2003 , considerably below the average of 38 % and well below increases in Australia , the Czech Republic , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Korea , Mexico , Poland , Portugal , the Slovak Republic and Sweden , that ranged from 33 % to 169 % during the same period .