[Mb-civic] Some improvement, but graduation gap remains - Derrick Z. Jackson - Boston Globe Op-Ed

[William Swiggard]

  Some improvement, but graduation gap remains

By Derrick Z. Jackson  |  March 18, 2006  |  The Boston Globe

THE NEW NCAA graduation rates make March seem less maddening on the 
surface. Schools now count transfers who graduate, and they are not 
penalized if players leave early in good academic standing. The average 
black men's graduation rate for basketball tournament teams is now 53 
percent, compared with 35 percent in 2003. But there remain tremendous gaps.

Of the 38 men's teams with higher graduation rates for white players 
than black ones, the average gap was a massive 46 percentage points. 
Eleven of the 17 worst black-male graduating teams in the 64-team field 
are in the AP Top 25, including top-ranked Duke.

The women continued their annual devastation of the men in average 
graduation rates, 81 percent to 58 percent. Black women, at 74 percent, 
beat the black men's graduation rate by 21 percentage points.

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