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Originally posted by madmax
Not on the decline?
I read the following stats last week during the NAACP convention.
80% of black households are led by women.
50% of blacks drop out of high school.
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• Percentage of African-American adults in 1960 who had completed high school: 20.1%
• Percentage of African-American adults in 2002 who had completed high school: 78.7% (U.S. Department of Education)
• Percentage of black schoolchildren ages 5 to 17 in 1979 who had at least one parent who graduated from high school: 49.9%
• Percentage of black schoolchildren ages 5 to 17 in 2001 who had at least one parent who graduated from high school: 87.7% (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Percentage of all 16- to 24-year-old blacks in the United States in 2000 who were high school dropouts: 13.1% (National Center for Education Statistics
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