Dropout and graduation rates vary widely among various populations
of students. For example, Education Week estimates that in the nation as a
whole, 69 percent of all students who entered high school in the fall of
2003 graduated in 2007. But only 56 percent of Hispanics and 54 percent
of blacks from that class graduated in 2007, compared to 81 percent of
Asians and 77 percent of whites