Puff, the Magic Dragon. Puff, the Magic Dragon (or Puff) is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. Lipton wrote a poem in 1959; Yarrow found it and wrote the lyrics based on the poem. After the song was released, Yarrow searched for Lipton and gave him half credit for the song.
MORE: Top four-year colleges. MORE: Top two-year colleges. But if you want to know how vets or military students are doing, you're out of luck. What's worse, one common statistic used to track academic success, the graduation rate, is calculated in a way that completely excludes most current and former troops.
The public high school 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate chart categorizes each state's graduation rates by race/ethnicity and demographics. The graduation rate for Texas Hispanic students was 85.1 percent and 84.1 for black students.Overall, the graduation rate for Texas students in 2013 was 88 percent, tying with Wisconsin for third place. Iowa tops the chart with a graduation rate of 89.7 percent, followed by Nebraska with 88.5 percent.ew data released this week from the National Center for Education Statistics show that Texas holds the highest graduation rates for black and Hispanic high school students in the United States.