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by snowwrestler 4018 days ago
> The early 2000s were a dark time for state education statistics. States could report high school graduation rates any old way they pleased, and many did.

> It was only in the 2000s that most states acquired the technology to track individual students.

It's easy to miss the major progress that has been made--very recently--in the basics of measuring education.