Board of Ed for February: graduation rates

Curtin:
"once students are assigned a cohort, they remain in the cohort"
Massachusetts is "known for our strict methodology"
88.3% graduation rate for four year
89.4% graduation rate for five years..."just short of having 90% of students graduate from our Massachusetts high schools in five years"
Sagan asks for a comparison
"it's not really apples and oranges; it's that everybody uses their own flavor of apples"
for eleven consecutive years, this rate has improved
all major racial and ethic rates increased over prior year

graduation rate gaps are narrowing across demographic groups

and dropout rates are the "lowest on record"

"our educators should be lauded for their efforts"
"it's a lot of pounding the pavement" to get students back into schools and keep them on track to graduate

Moriarty: do we know why? is it just paying attention
Curtin: combination of both efforts to have students stay engaged but the different multiple pathways that are offered in schools now

already following higher ed, now looking at "earnings of our graduates"