What's in a number?
To many, 81 percent is a success story. It's the nation's all-time-high rate for high school graduation in 2013, the most recent year of federal data.
But the NPR Ed Team and reporters from member stations around the country have been digging into that number and found it's more complicated.
Not all the news here is good.
Yesterday, we took you to the state with the highest graduation rate — Iowa — to see what it's doing to keep at-risk students in school: free day care, an in-school food bank, small classes and flexible hours.
Today comes a very different list — of the questionable quick fixes schools are using to improve their graduation rates. It's a wide range, from strategies that may seem, on the surface, irresponsible ... to others motivated by good intentions that provide a safety net for vulnerable students.
[For more of this story, written by Cory Turner, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/ed...tionable-quick-fixes]
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