Recently, Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky and the Board of Trustees announced an end to the practice of allowing high school students with an acceptable attendance record, ...

Graduation is one of the most anticipated moments of a student’s career. It goes beyond just walking on the stage and waiting for a diploma with your name on it. Graduation means waking up every day ...

There can be lots of variation underneath a college’s overall graduation rate. Recently, a colleague here at The Chronicle stumbled across an unusually detailed breakdown of graduation rates that ...

Graduation time is here again. Over the next few weeks, undergraduate students around the country will be donning caps and gowns and attending commencement ceremonies where they will be awarded their ...

The goal of ensuring the accuracy of states’ graduation data would be closer to reality if the Department of Education had been more forceful in implementing provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act ...

I am seated on the stage with other “dignitaries” listening to the graduation ceremonies. A valedictorian is honored for her straight A’s “in spite of her personal issues.” A school administrator ...

Graduation time is here again. Over the next few weeks, undergraduate students around the country will be donning caps and gowns and attending commencement ceremonies where they will be awarded their ...