claim: "one out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. in our major cities across america, half of our kids don’t graduate."
author: paul ryan
evidence_1: apr 12, 2018 ... as automation disrupts the labor market and good middle-class jobs disappear,  ... like many cities across america, lowell is struggling to find its ... more  education than just a high-school diploma, thus squeezing out many of those ...  eighty-four percent of students are graduating on time — an all-time high, ...
evidence_2: get high school dropout facts and statistics and learn why dropping out of ...  every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the united states  alone. ... about 25% of high school freshmen fail to graduate from high school on  time. ... are still far more likely to graduate than latino & african-american  students.
evidence_3: jun 15, 2011 ... on america's latest exams (the national assessment of educational progress), ...  our high-school graduation rate continues to hover just shy of 70 ... to have one  of the top percentages of high-school and college graduates ... at almost 4  percent a year; since then, the increase has been about half as fast.
evidence_4: oct 17, 2016 ... the high school graduation rate in the u.s. reached an all-time high of 83 ... the  scores of high school students on the test known as the "nation's report ...  cohen points out that roughly half of states now offer multiple diplomas. ... in  online "credit recovery," which allows students to make up failed courses.
evidence_5: third of all public high school students – and nearly one half of all blacks,.  hispanics and native americans – fail to graduate from public high school with  their ... the decision to drop out is a dangerous one for the student. dropouts are  ... these interviews took place in large cities, suburbs and small towns with high  dropout ...