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- 1. The more you learn, the more you earn. Over the course of a lifetime, a college grad will earn more than $1 million more than a high school grad. Source: U.S. Census Current Population Reports, Series P-60, from Digest of Education Statistics, 2005. -1-
- 2. Wage trends are ominous for men without a college degree. A high school diploma used to be sufficient to have a fair shot at the American dream, but no longer. A college degree is required. Inflation-adjusted income Source: Inherited Opportunity for Higher Education, Association for Institutional Research, 5/16/06. -2-
- 3. New job trends are ominous for those without a college degree. Employment Change by Education (1998 – 2008) +10,221,000 Jobs 4-Year Degree or More +4,563,000 Jobs -3- Some College +121,000 Jobs High School Only -600,000 Jobs High School Dropout 0 10 -2 12 2 4 6 8 Million Jobs Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 4. Male high school dropouts were 47 times more likely than a college graduate to be incarcerated. Black males had the highest incarceration rate. Source: NY Times, 10/9/09. -4-
- 6. Up to half of the printed fourth-grade curriculum is incomprehensible to students who read below that grade level.
- 7. High school graduation, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by knowing someone's reading skill at the end of third grade. A person who is not at least a modestly skilled reader by that time is unlikely to graduate from high school.36% 52% 51% 22% Source: 2009 data, National Center for Education Statistics, NAEP Data Explorer, http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde; Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters (Annie E. Casey Foundation).
- 8. Black and Latino 12th graders read and do math at the same level as white 8th graders. Source: NAEP 2005 data. Slide courtesy of Ed Trust. -6-
- 9. Few black and Latino students make it to college and even fewer graduate. Sources: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, State-level Enrollment and Degree Attainment Data. U.S. Census Bureau, 2003 Current Population Survey, Educational Attainment in the United States, June 2004. Slide courtesy of Education Trust. -7- Latino Black