African Americans today are much better educated than they were in 1968 but still lag behind whites in overall educational attainment. More than 90 percent of younger African Americans (ages 25 to 29) have graduated from high school, compared with just over half in 1968—which means they’ve nearly closed the gap with white high school graduation rates. They are also more than twice as likely to have a college degree as in 1968 but are still half as likely as young whites to have a college degree.
Fractured statistic there. The problem with black HS graduation is NOT "a national" problem.. It affects largely the crime/poverty ridden big cities where there IS NO HOPE... Also -- the ones that are products of failing schools that issue diplomas for virtually no academic achievement ROBBED THEM of that chance to go to higher education before they ever ENTERED HS... Not ready for HS when they get there. Certainly not going to college out of HS...
But I'm not even SURE where they GOT these numbers.. Does NOT agree nationally with Dept of Education..
Public High School Graduation Rates
(Last Updated: May 2019)
In school year 2016–17, the adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) for public high school students was 85 percent, the highest it has been since the rate was first measured in 2010–11. Asian/Pacific Islander students had the highest ACGR (91 percent), followed by White (89 percent), Hispanic (80 percent),
Black (78 percent), and American Indian/Alaska Native (72 percent) students.
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Here's another source from HHS.. Notice the grad rate in the 70s and 80s -- that's the WORKING poor of Today...
Lots of discrepancies here because some count GEDs, late or delayed graduations, etc..
THe BIG CITIES are still deplorable for black HS grad rates.. EVEN ONE with a less than 75% grad rate would be a crime.. But there are HUNDREDS of failing schools in those cities.. And parents WANT OUT... The ones that care.. Because IF they graduate, the curriculum has been dumbed down so far that they COULD get a diploma and know approximately nothing....
These are the sources used in that study..
1. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Summary of Report (U.S. Government Printing Office), downloadable at
www.hsdl.org.
2. Data for high school and college graduate rates among adults ages 25–29 are from the National Center for Education Statistics, “
Table 104.20. Percentage of Persons 25 to 29 Years Old with Selected Levels of Educational Attainment, by Race/Ethnicity and Sex: Selected Years, 1920 through 2017,”
2017 Tables and Figures, accessed February 4, 2018, at
nces.ed.gov/programs/digest. The most recent year is 2016. The 1968 figure is estimated as 0.2 times the figure for 1960 and 0.8 times the figure for 1970.
3. For 1968, unemployment data are from the Council of Economic Advisers, “
Table B-43. Civilian Unemployment Rate by Demographic Characteristic, 1968–2009,” in
Economic Report of the President 2010 (U.S. Government Printing Office), accessed February 4, 2018, at
www.gpo.gov/fdsys. For 2018 (2017 data), we use Bureau of Labor Statistics data, data tools,
www.bls.gov/data/#unemployment, series ID LNU04000003 and LNU04000006, accessed February 4, 2018.
4. Median hourly wage data are from EPI analysis of March
Current Population Survey data for calendar years 1968 and 2016. Data for 1968 are converted to 2016 dollars using the CPI-U-RS chained to the CPI-U-X1.
5. Median household income data are from the U.S. Census Bureau, “Table H-5. Race and Hispanic Origin of Householder—Households by Median and Mean Income: 1967 to 2016,”
Historical Income Tables, accessed February 4, 2018, at
www.census.gov. The most recent year is 2016. Data for 1968 are converted to 2016 dollars using the CPI-U-RS chained to the CPI-U-X1.
6. Poverty rate data are from the U.S. Census Bureau, “Table 2. Poverty Status of People by Family Relationship, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1959 to 2016,”
Historical Poverty Tables, accessed February 4, 2018, at
www.census.gov.
7. As noted in the appendix, data for 1968 are not always available. In this case, we use data for the closest available year, 1963.
8. Median household wealth data are from an Urban Institute analysis of Survey of Consumer Finances data, presented in “Chart 3: Average Family Wealth by Race/Ethnicity, 1963–2016,” in
Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America, updated October 24, 2017. Data refer to 1963 and 2016. Data for 1963 are converted to 2016 dollars.
9. Homeownership rate data are from Laurie Goodman, Jun Zhu, and Rolf Pendall, “
Are Gains in Black Homeownership History?” and accompanying downloadable spreadsheet, Urban Institute, February 15, 2017. The 1968 figure is estimated as 0.2 times the figure for 1960 and 0.8 times the figure for 1970. Most recent data refer to 2015.
10. Infant mortality rate data are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Table 11. Infant Mortality Rates, by Race: United States, Selected Years 1950–2015,”
Health, United States, 2016—Individual Charts and Tables, accessed February 4, 2018, at
www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus. The 1968 figure is estimated as 0.2 times the figure for 1960 and 0.8 times the figure for 1970. Most recent data refer to 2015. The 1968 data are based on the race of the child; the 2015 data are based on the race of the mother.
11. Life expectancy data are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Table 15. Life Expectancy at Birth, at Age 65, and at Age 75, by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: United States, Selected Years 1900–2015,”
Health, United States, 2016—Individual Charts and Tables, accessed February 4, 2018, at
www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus. The 1968 figure is estimated as 0.2 times the figure for 1960 and 0.8 times the figure for 1970. Most recent data refer to 2015.
12. Incarcerated population data are from the authors’ calculations based on unpublished tabulations by Kris Warner of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, using Bureau of Justice Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau data.
So if you disagree take that up with Richard Rothstein. Let's take a look at this.
"Attempting to correct racial disparities requires a complete and open-minded exploration of the causes for those disparities.. Blaming racism before you DO THAT is too convenient and simplistic. MANY of those causes are SYSTEMIC -- and only affect the black community in an unequal manner BECAUSE of education and economic gaps.. The Big Three being education, economic income and access to EQUAL and ACCOMMODATING justice that takes into account the special needs of folks living on the edge of economic ruin."
You really think you're making sense here. Racial disparities have been caused by racism. That's the accurate assessment. To conclude it's something else is the simplistic and convenient thing. The education gap, doesn't really exist but the gap on school funding due to racist based property assessment values is a problem. Furthermore the economic gap was and still is created by racism. An open mind means you can accept that racism is a factor and in fact THE factor. I don't know what you think racism is, but you really don't have a clue if you think that people are just mindlessly blaming racism for things.
