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Download full textWest, Thomas C. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
Each school year, roughly a thousand students drop out of Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS). However, unlike other large, urban school districts where students who drop out skip school and are suspended often (Balfanz & Byrnes, 2010), students who drop out of MCPS are present in school; they just are not doing well…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Potential Dropouts
Direct linkDeming, David; Dynarski, Susan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84%. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in kindergarten rather than first grade. This paper documents this historical shift. We show that only about a…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Educational Attainment, College Attendance, Educational Change
