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Chu, Haiwen; Fong, Anthony B. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This report is part of a long-term collaboration of the Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative at WestEd with the Fort Worth Independent School District. The objective of this report is to explore how ninth grade data can predict the graduation outcomes of newcomers. Based upon predictor variables, binary indicators can identify students…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Graduation Rate, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Fong, Anthony B.; Jaquet, Karina; Finkelstein, Neal – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2014
This REL West study explores the prevalence of students repeating Algebra I, who is most likely to repeat the course, and the level of improvement for students who repeat. Using six years of data from a cohort of 3,400 first-time seventh grade students in a California school district, authors found that 44 percent of students repeated algebra I.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Repetition, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement
Chu, Haiwen; Fong, Anthony B. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This report is part of a long-term collaboration of the Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative at WestEd with the Fort Worth Independent School District. The focus of this report is on a historical cohort of ninth graders who were enrolled at the International Newcomer Academy in the 2009-2010 school year. This report follows this cohort…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Low Income Students, Student Mobility
Chu, Haiwen; Fong, Anthony B. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This report is part of a long-term collaboration of the Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative at WestEd with the Fort Worth Independent School District. The focus of this report is on comparisons between ninth grade newcomers and other groups of English language learners (ELLs). Analyses compare newcomers to 1) long-term ELLs who were…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X.; Fong, Anthony B.; Shirk, Paul B. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2009
This study follows a cohort of first-time ninth graders over five years in San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) to describe the magnitude of its dropout problem and the numbers, characteristics, and graduation outcomes of the dropouts who subsequently reenrolled in the district. Additionally, it documents reenrollment issues…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Second Language Learning, Credits