You've got [American] schools admitting people quite literally to graduate schools who only have a high-school diploma, because they misunderstood what the credential represented.

由于误解资信材料所代表的内容，毫不夸张地讲，美国学校把只有高中文凭的人自然而然地录成研究生。

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Today 80% of American women with a college education are in the Labour force compared with 67% of those with a high school diploma and 47% of those without one.

而如今的美国，这两个比率分别为80%和67%，而高中未毕业的女性中，这个数字为47%。

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In 1967, 97 percent of 30-to-50-year-old American men with only a high-school diploma were working; in 2010, just 76 percent were.

1967年，在30 - 50岁年龄段内，97%的美国男人是仅凭高中毕业文凭参加工作的；在2010年，这个比例降到了76%。

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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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An even greater number of African American males do not graduate with a regular high school diploma, and African American males also experience disparate rates of incarceration.

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But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma.

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