Citi Postsecondary Success Research Base
CPSP addresses postsecondary access and success for low-income and first-generation youth as an urgent and complex societal challenge requiring effective community-based partnerships to meet the economic, educational, cultural, community, and other dimensions of this issue.
Resource:
Christopher B. Swanson, Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation Findings:
- The national high school graduation rate is approximately 70 percent
- About 1.2 million students drop out of high school annually and that the problem is most severe in large urban areas with high concentrations of poverty, where only about half of public school students receive diplomas
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Resource:
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates: 1991-2002, (2005). Findings:
- Only 34 percent of students nationally leave high school with the skills and qualifications necessary to succeed in college
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The Forum for Education and Democracy, Democracy at Risk: The Need for a New Federal Policy in Education. Findings:
- Even highly qualified low-income students have much lower college enrollment and completion rates than their more affluent peers
- The United States has dropped from the first in higher education to 14th—approximately 30 percent of students complete a four-year college degree, compared with 50 percent among OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) countries