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Education Week’s Diplomas Count 2009 released earlier in June includes two very interesting (and addictive if you are a data geek like me) interactive tools, Graduation Rate Trends 1996-2006 and Graduation Rate Map Tool.

The Grad-rate Map Tool, using Google Map, shows you state and district graduation rate data. These data include demographic data as well as grad data from the past decade. So, the first thing I did was to check the graduation rate for my old high school’s district.

To my surprise, I discovered that the class year before my own graduating year achieved a 98% rate (which was about 30% higher than national average). It is the highest (by 10% or so) comparing to all the other graduating years, before or after, in the same district.

How I remember all those smart ass upperclass students that my mother just won’t stop comparing me to….

The trend map graphically display state-level data over the past decade. The U.S. national average has been (slowly) improving from 66.4% in 1995-96 to 69.2% in 2005-06.

(More education-related infographics from Edweek here)

Track the release of education-related stimulus funds with this tool on Edweek.org.

Edweek Stimulus Tracker

It shows an overview of the total funds released, to-be released and received by states. It also breaks down to the state-by-state level with detail numbers for each funding category.