The rate among white high school graduates, by contrast, has declined slightly since 2008.
Further, 68% of the prison population is made up of non-high school graduates.
Then I helped high school graduates apply to college and get financial aid.
Fewer than 6% of U.S. high school graduates plan to go into engineering.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 68.3% of 2011 high school graduates headed off to college last fall.
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The doors of the University of California were thrown open, tuition-free, for the top 12.5 percent of high school graduates.
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Afterward, 64% with BAs were employed, compared to 57% of those with associate degrees and 47% of high school graduates.
College graduates earn more money and have a significantly lower unemployment rate than high school graduates with no post-secondary degree.
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It is almost time for high school graduates to go off to college, moving away from home for the first time.
The NCRC certificate is designed to show employers that high school graduates have the necessary skills to succeed in the workplace.
This is a reflection of how aggressively Japanese companies have moved off-shore manufacturing, which previously provided jobs for high school graduates.
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But keep asking, and high school graduates will say they wondered about it, questioned it or even asked to make a change.
In 2010, 50 percent of ultra-Orthodox male high school graduates were conscripted.
"Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites in Rate of College Enrollment, " reads the headline of a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center.
The 1984 act reformed the schools, boosting average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and the proportion of high school graduates continuing on to college.
California has the worst credit rating (no shocker there.) And Texas is home to the lowest percentage of high school graduates over age 25.
Among the dead were brothers Douglas and Robert Snokhous, West High School graduates who volunteered together for the town's fire department for more than 13 years.
Ministry of Education and Science data for last year show 51 percent of high school graduates enrolling in college programs, twice the percentage in 1990.
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The unemployment rate for high school graduates is about 10 percent higher than the national average, and as Christine says, under 5 percent if you have a college education.
In terms of education, 25 percent of households had a college graduate as the primary PC user, with both college and high school graduates accounting for 24 percent each.
Everyone else, if they so chose, could go to one of the many California Community Colleges, which were open not only to high school graduates but also to qualifying non-traditional students.
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Thanks to the information revolution, the rewards for university study are growing: in 1997 college graduates earned 77% more than high school graduates, up from a differential of 58% in 1975.
Meanwhile, Time reports as follows: While the unemployment rate for recent four year college graduates is 6.8%, according to researchers the unemployment rate for recent high school graduates is nearly 24%.
If one of this year's high school graduates decides he wants nothing more from life than to be a billionaire, should he plunk down tens of thousands of dollars and work for years to earn a college diploma?
Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.
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We also suffer from a college attainment gap, as high school graduates from the wealthiest families in our nation are almost certain to continue on to higher education, while just over half of our high school graduates in the poorest quarter of families attend college.
If the percentage of high school graduates going to college shortly after graduation dropped from the current 70 percent to the 50 percent who went from high school to college in the early 1960s, as many as 3.5 million additional young people could be contributing to the economy.
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