{"id":102179,"date":"2020-06-10T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=102179"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:01:23","slug":"black-high-school-attainment-nearly-on-par-with-national-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=102179","title":{"rendered":"Black High School Attainment Nearly on Par With National Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 90% of the U.S. population has graduated high school, a dramatic improvement in educational attainment that began when compulsory education was adopted by every state a century ago. The latest numbers form the Census Dept show 88% of Blacks Have a High School Diploma, 26% a Bachelor\u2019s Degree. The most striking social shift is the shrinking of the high school attainment gap between Blacks and the national average.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102181\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/unnamed-5.jpg 557w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/unnamed-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102180\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1591721957648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1591721957648.jpg 576w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1591721957648-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1591721957648-570x704.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1940, when the U.S. Census Bureau started asking about educational attainment, only 7% of Blacks had a high school education, compared with 24% for the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>College attainment has also increased, though not as dramatically, and the progress of the Black population has been considerable in the context of rising college education overall.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Black educational attainment has been much closer to the national average and today, 88% of Blacks or African Americans have a high school diploma, just shy of the national average, according to census data released last month from the Current Population Survey.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis of educational data does not include people who categorize themselves as Black in combination with another race. It focuses on those who identify themselves as \u201cBlack alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Universal compulsory education is a major reason for skyrocketing high school attainment but demographic momentum also plays a role. As older and less educated generations are replaced by more educated youth, the nation\u2019s educational attainment rises.<\/p>\n<p>Source US Census<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 90% of the U.S. population has graduated high school, a dramatic improvement in educational attainment that began when compulsory education was adopted by every state a century ago. The latest numbers form the Census Dept show 88% of Blacks Have a High School Diploma, 26% a Bachelor\u2019s Degree. The most striking social shift is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/unnamed-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}