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The Graduation Gap in Texas

TX (6/3/2010)

http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/may/11/graduation-gap/

For years, Texas universities have focused on getting more students, particularly low-income students, onto their campuses. The hard part, it turns out, is getting them to leave — with degrees.

Of the 32 Texas state universities tracked by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, only five schools have self-reported graduation rates above 50 percent…

>>Read the  Full Article at: The Texas Tribune

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