Sentences with phrase «substantial graduation gap»

In fact, the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010).

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Yet despite these encouraging trends, substantial graduation - rate gaps along lines of race, income, and gender persist.