{"id":2897,"date":"2010-08-18T00:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2010-08-18T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T05:58:48","slug":"distrubing-statistic-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/18\/distrubing-statistic-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Statistic of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nationwide, the graduation rate for (black males) is a paltry 47 percent. And in some major cities, it’s perilously low\u2014in New York City and Philadelphia, for example, only 28 percent of black males complete high school on time.<\/p>\n

New York state has the worst overall graduation rate for black males at 25 percent. On the other end of the spectrum, amongst states with at least 100,000 black male students in their public schools, New Jersey is able to get nearly 70 percent of these kids through high school on time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So says a 50-state study published by the Schott Foundation for Public Education<\/a>.\u00a0 The 47% figure represents those students in ninth grade that graduate with their cohort four years later.\u00a0 If you include those students that receive a GED or otherwise eventually graduate, this number would no doubt be higher.\u00a0 But for comparison sake, the White male “on time” graduation” rate is 78%.\u00a0\u00a0 One ray of hope is that school districts in Newark and Montgomery County, Maryland are graduating Black males at a rate that is closer to the White male average of 78%.\u00a0\u00a0 Strangely, Florida cities are among the worst performing in graduating Black males on-time:<\/p>\n