High school graduation rates jump to highest since 1970s

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High school graduation rates jump to highest since 1970s

U.S. students graduated from public high schools at the highest rate since the 1970s, with the largest leap for Hispanic students, government data show ... Wise’s Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington - based advocacy group focused on improving graduation rates, estimates that the 1.3 million high school dropouts from the Class of 2010 cost the U.S. economy $337 billion in lost wages over their lifetime.