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Download full textWills, Ted; Neild, Ruth Curran; Pileggi, Molly – Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2019
School learning starts with school attendance. Students need to be in school to receive instruction and learn from their teachers and peers. When schools have high rates of poor attendance, their academic achievement levels suffer. Ninth grade is a critical juncture that comes with increased student autonomy -- and new pitfalls, including the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Attendance Patterns, Academic Achievement
Neild, Ruth Curran; Boccanfuso, Christopher; Byrnes, Vaughan – Center for Social Organization of Schools, 2013
With growing public recognition that too many students in the United States fail to complete high school and that those who do graduate often are inadequately prepared for success in postsecondary education and the workforce, policymakers and education leaders are turning their attention afresh to the American high school. There has been…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational High Schools, Outcomes of Education, Urban Schools
Neild, Ruth Curran; Balfanz, Robert – Philadelphia Youth Network, 2006
This report uses a unique set of data obtained from the Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS), which is housed at the University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Laboratory. The KIDS system merges individual-level data on young people from the School District of Philadelphia and the city's social service agencies, including the Department of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, High School Freshmen, Transfer Students
