Earlier this summer, we published a map of high school graduation rates by district across the United States. We’re now breaking it down and exploring trends in different states and regions. We need to talk about Texas. Since publishing our map of high school graduation rates by district, Texas is by far the place I […]
Sarah Butrymowicz
Sarah Butrymowicz received a bachelor's degree from Tufts University and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Graduation Rates Change by 30 Percentage Points Over a Few Miles in the Northeast
Earlier this summer, we published a map of high school graduation rates by district across the United States. We’re now breaking it down and exploring trends in different states and regions. Let’s zoom in to one of the hardest-to-see areas of our high school graduation rate map: those tiny Northeastern districts. Let’s start by looking […]
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The Surprising Initial Results From a New Common Core Exam
This story was co-authored by Emmanuel Felton. The results have started to come in from some of the new Common Core-aligned exams given this spring. And the news is good. Surprisingly good. Two multi-state groups, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and Partnership for College and Career Readiness (PARCC), spent years making standardized tests to judge how […]
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What’s Behind the Deep South’s Low High School Graduation Rates?
And why are some high-poverty districts in southern Alabama doing so well?
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What’s Going On With All the Missing High School Graduation Rate Data?
Click here to see a full size version of this map. Graphic: Sarah Butrymowicz Earlier this summer, we published a map of high school graduation rates by district across the United States. We’re now breaking it down and exploring trends in different states and regions. When I started working on our map of high school […]
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The Graduation Rates From Every School District* in One Map
A one-of-a-kind analysis of how each district fares
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There’s No Good Way to Know How California’s Alternative Schools are Working
Thousands of low-income students flood schools designed for the most vulnerable students, but no one is keeping track of what happens to them
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Lessons from the Principal of a Kentucky School That Went From One of the Worst to One of the Best Under Common Core
When results from Kentucky’s first round of Common Core aligned testing came out in 2011, Southside Elementary School in Lee County, like most schools, found itself looking at grim numbers. Pass rates went from 73 percent to 46 percent in reading and 62.5 percent to 27 percent in math. Based on those scores, and some […]
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Why One Common Core Test Will Match the Tough National Exam Known as the Nation’s Report Card, and One Won’t
PARCC predicts 35 to 45 percent of 11th graders will score at a college ready level on this year’s exams
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What’s the Point of High School in a Small Fishing Town?
Making itself relevant, a Maine school sees its graduation rate soar
