These 12 charts reveal the distressing state of high school graduation rates and high school graduation rates for students who are college ready in the US, Mississippi and other states in the south and southwest regions.
These charts were prepared by Southern Echo, Inc., Jackson, MS, March 2006, with data derived from a study entitled Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates: 1991-2002 Education Working Paper #8, by Jay P. Greene, Ph.D. and Marcus A. Winters, Published February 2005, by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.