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Download full textBridgeland, John M.; Balfanz, Robert; Moore, Laura A.; Friant, Rebecca S. – Civic Enterprises, 2010
High dropout rates continue to be a silent epidemic afflicting the nation's schools. Although some measurable progress is being made in some school districts and states to raise high school graduation rates, and federal, state, and local policies and practices are changing to meet the dropout challenge, the nation's progress is too slow and the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Attitudes, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Losen, Daniel; Orfield, Gary; Balfanz, Robert – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2006
The most accurate method for tracking high school graduation rates is to provide each student with a single lifetime school identification number that would follow him or her throughout his or her entire school career. Texas has this system in place, but this report demonstrates that the official rates Texas has historically reported dramatically…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Accountability, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
