American Graduate

Graduation by the Numbers | American Graduate

Episode 3 | 22m 58s  | Video has closed captioning.

In Nashville Public Schools in 2012, one in 11 students dropped out—8.8 percent, which is almost 4 times the previous year’s dropout rate. But a student counted as a dropout is not necessarily someone who does not graduate. The result is that the graduation rate can go up—even as the rate of dropouts goes up.