The state Department of Public Instruction also wants to cut the high school graduation gap in half over six years. (host.madison.com)
More than a quarter of colleges and universities have black - white graduation gaps higher than 20 percentage points, but the data also show that improvement is possible, Nichols said. (hechingerreport.org)
Among the 676 institutions analyzed, 22 percent had a black - white graduation gap of less than 5 percentage points, and at 8 percent of the colleges, black students graduated at the same rate (or higher) as white students. (hechingerreport.org)