High school graduation rates reached a record high of 80% in 2012!
That would be great news, if it wasn’t for the fact that this “record-high” rate meant a full 20%, or one in five kids, didn’t finish the most basic level of education.
It’s possible that those who didn’t graduate got a General Education Development (GED) certificate instead, or will at a later point, but people with a GED tend to fare as well economically as those who got neither a diploma nor a GED.
So while reaching the 80% mark might be a move in the right direction, this is not a number that brings a lot of cheer.
And then there’s college… The percentage of the population with a college degree has
