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.
Highlights of the class of 2015 graduation rates include: 1  The statewide graduation rate jumped 18.6 percentage points since 2003-04, up from 59.2 percent in 2003-04 to 77.8 percent in 2014-15. 2  Since 2010-11, the statewide graduation rate has increased 7.2 percentage points.