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Contexts Matter: The Relationship Between School Wide Student Demographics And Graduation Rates, Philip Riddle
Contexts Matter: The Relationship Between School Wide Student Demographics And Graduation Rates, Philip Riddle
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Nearly 60 years after the Supreme Court Decision in Brown, segregation is still an ingrained facet of American public education. This study investigated the extent to which these continued patterns of segregation influenced graduation rates from high school. The study used data provided by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) on the 2011 graduating cohorts in 302 public high schools across the state. The results indicate that graduation rates for all students vary significantly as a function of the overall socioeconomic and racial composition of high schools. In addition, low-income students are significantly more likely to graduate in low-poverty high …