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Download full textWake County Public School System, 2010
On March 4th, 2010, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released its annual statewide Dropout Report covering the 2008-09 school year. The charts in this report show the dropout rate for Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) compared to the state as a whole, to other large school districts in North Carolina, and by federal No…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Direct linkLewis, Anne C. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In this article, the author discusses the discrepancy in high school dropout rates throughout the U.S. and in national studies because of different measures of the dropout rate. Many states began to use a common dropout definition developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Not included among the 37 states using the NCES…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
Swanson, Christopher B. – 2003
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 requires that public elementary and secondary school systems be held accountable for achieving high levels of educational proficiency for all students. While achievement testing is the central component of state accountability systems under NCLB, these systems must include graduation rates as an academic…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Data Analysis, Data Collection
