Test Your Knowledge Quiz

Are you up on the trends and projections that will affect our state's future? Test your knowledge with these six questions:

Between 2008 and 2014 the number of high school graduates in Minnesota will:

Increase 31 percent
Stay the same
Decrease 9 percent
Decrease 2 percent

Students of color will make up what percentage of high school students by 2016:

8 percent
52 percent
35 percent
20 percent

The percentage of 2008 ninth graders who will start and complete a college degree right after high school is:

61 percent
49 percent
27 percent
14 percent

The average yearly income difference between Minnesotans with a high school diploma only and those with a four-year college degree is:

$7,000
$19,000
$34,000
negligible

The percentage of Minnesota students who met benchmarks in 2008 for college readiness in the four key areas of English, writing, math and science is:

7 percent
20 percent
32 percent
64 percent

The percent of Minnesota’s low-income high school seniors who go on to college is:

29 percent
40 percent
56 percent
72 percent

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