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Domina, Thurston; Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; Tienda, Marta – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act requires states to publish high school graduation rates for public schools; the U.S. Department of Education is currently considering a mandate to standardize high school graduation rate reporting. However, no consensus exists among researchers or policymakers about how to measure high school graduation rates. We use…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Longitudinal Studies
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Alon, Sigal; Domina, Thurston; Tienda, Marta – Social Forces, 2010
We assess the intergenerational educational mobility of recent cohorts of high school graduates to consider whether Hispanics' lagging postsecondary attainment reflects a temporary lull due to immigration of low education parents or a more enduring pattern of unequal transmission of social status relative to whites. Using data from three national…
Descriptors: Social Status, Educational Attainment, High School Graduates, Longitudinal Studies