A different sort of ranking

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Wed, 18 May 2005 18:02:31 +0000

At the extremes (high and low graduation rates), the rates simply reflect wealth and poverty, the degree to which students have to drop out for financial reasons. If it were to be indicative of anything, one would have to run it against average family income (of the bottom half of the student population) to see which ones were truly “outperformers”.