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For decades, high school graduation rates have been quite dismal, but now, according according to a new paper from Harvard's Richard Murnane, they're rising. No one really knows why graduation rates are rising, but, according to The Washington Post, this "May be the welcome byproduct of a upturn in math and reading skills, as measured by test scores, among minorities in the years before the students reach ninth grade."

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