How to Graduate More Black Students

Dozens of colleges are doing it, and a new report outlines how

By: Emily DeRuy

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(AP Photo/Ric Feld)
(AP Photo/Ric Feld)

Many more black students are graduating from college than a decade ago. According to a new report from The Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on improving outcomes for low-income students of color, completion rates for African Americans increased at nearly 70 percent of the four-year public schools that raised their overall graduations rates between 2003 and 2013. But at the same time, a third of the colleges the group studied that had rising overall graduation rates actually had stagnant or declining graduation rates for black students.

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