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New Data Promotes College Readiness in Delaware Schools
Newsworks.org (07/16/2013) Polston, NichelleA new report by the Strategic Data Project and the Delaware Department of Education shows that the state's educators have improved their ability to track college readiness. The report, "Delaware College-Going Diagnostic (An Analysis of The First State Students' College Readiness)," which analyzed local and national data over a period of six years, indicates that just 30 percent of the state's ninth graders made it to their second year of college. The data will be used to boost high school graduation rates and college enrollment and retention rates through the implementation of new programs and initiatives. "Our goal is that all of our children are prepared for college when they're done with high school that they can make that step into college successfully and it is painful to see children who are prepared and not making the step," says Delaware Education Secretary Mark Murphy. "[There] is urgency around addressing all of our high schools and all of our children so they all have the opportunity to go to college and persist."
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