Graduation Rate

The percentage of North Carolina students testing at grade level on state standardized tests moved up last school year. That means fewer schools will be…

More public school students ed their standardized exams last year than in the previous year, in part because of changes to the grading scale that made…

It’s hard to find bad news in this year’s graduation report from the Department of Public Instruction. More than 83 percent of high school students who…

North Carolina’s high school graduation rate is inching up. For the first time last year, the state ranked better than the national average. But still,…

Duke is leading the Atlantic Coast Conference in a statistic not frequently reported in the sports pages. The Blue Devils topped the league in the…

Social workers in Cumberland County are ing high school dropouts this summer in an attempt to bring them back to class. Natasha Scott is the…

Governor Bev Perdue and state education officials are touting the state’s improved high school graduation rate - and criticizing Republicans for making…