City graduation rates: higher but empty-Editorial - NYPOST.com - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 26 Mar 12'Grad Nation," a report released last Monday by Colin Powell's nonprofit group America's Promise, hails New York's "double-digit gains in high school graduation rates." It cites a seemingly laudable spike in the percentage of diplomas handed out throughout the state - from 60 percent in 2002 to 74 percent in 2009. Cause for celebration? More like alarm, we'd say. Because - combined with other, less glowing data - what "Grad Nation" really reveals is that more kids in New York have been let loose to the outside world . . . totally unprepared for what comes next.