In contrast, education levels elsewhere in the developed world continue to rise, with college
graduation rates increasing roughly 5 percentage points among the other countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past 20 years alone.
For the
roughly 68,000 children that call Newark home, improvements in key areas of child health and an
increase in both preschool enrollment and high school
graduation rates point to progress in the state's largest city, according to the Newark Kids Count 2017, released today.