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Direct linkClark, Jill P. – Principal Leadership, 2012
Many students enter large comprehensive high schools without having the necessary social and academic skills or understanding of what will be expected of them as they move through the high school curriculum. To help a higher number of students experience success, schools must help them develop academic, social, and self-management skills.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Discipline Problems, Dropout Rate, Grade 9
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Download full textPong, Suet-ling; Strickland, Martha; Wise, John – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2012
Between 2000 and 2009, the Hispanic population more than doubled in 25 of 67 Pennsylvania counties. Over the same period, the Hispanic student population in Pennsylvania schools also rose, from 4 percent to 8 percent (Pennsylvania State Data Center 2011). The focus on Hispanic students' level of academic achievement rose along with this rapid…
Descriptors: Population Growth, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8, Academic Achievement
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
