If you were interested you've probably already gone to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard to check out their report on what they're calling a Graduation Rate crisis, and The Education Trust's response to it. But I promised links and press releases and I am, if nothing else, a man of my word (anyone who say which word gets their mouth washed out with soap).
I slipped the links to their respective press releases in up there already. The press releases follow (and wouldn't it be nice if everyone who just published a press release without analysis would tell you so?).
The Harvard report is issued jointly by Harvard, Civil Society Institute’s Results for America (RFA) project and Advocates for Children of New York. The report is a 98 page pdf, so I'll be writing an opinion of the abstract to submit to OSP.
The Education trust has their own, eight page, pdf on this issue. If you read it, you'll see why I think highly of an organization that supports a policy I oppose…because they seem to be holding the feds accountable for the promises they made.