Minority and at-risk groups of high school students have been a focus in recent years as the U.S. Department of Education tries to raise their overall high school graduation rates. According to the Washington Post, “[t]he high school graduation rate for African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, students with disabilities and poor students increased between 2010 and 2013, narrowing the gap in rates between those groups and their white counterparts, according to new data released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education.”
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