http://nwpr.org en http://nwpr.org/post/oregon-grad-rates-improve-1-3-still-fall-short <p>Oregon&#39;s high school graduation rates inched up slightly last year. But as Rob Manning reports, thousands of young people who endure four years of high school don&rsquo;t have a regular diploma to show for it.</p><p>67 percent of freshmen who entered high school in 2007, earned diplomas last spring, after four years in school. The other thirty-three percent are not all dropouts. Many of them got alternative diplomas, or GED&#39;s. But education experts say the goal should be to have as many students as possible earning the more rigorous, standard diploma.</p> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:10:27 +0000 Rob Manning 2255 at http://nwpr.org Oregon Grad Rates Improve, But 1 in 3 Still Fall Short