A new report released by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center shows that Tennessee must be doing something right in terms of helping students graduate from high school. From 1998 to 2008, the state's graduation rate jumped from 57.5% to 76.9% (a 19.4 percentage point growth), while the national average rose from 65.6% to 71.7% (a 6.1 percentage point growth).

Metro Nashville Public Schools is making equally strong gains. From 2003 to 2008, just half of the time period shown in this report, MNPS graduation rates rose from  57.8% to 72.6%. In 2010, the district jumped even higher to 82.9%!

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