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Nunnery, John; Kaplan, Leslie; Owings, William A.; Pribesh, S. – NASSP Bulletin, 2009
This study examined approximately 6,500 Florida students' reading and mathematics performance when taught by a sample of teachers who obtained their teaching credentials through the Troops to Teachers program. Results indicated that students served by Troops teachers performed about equally well in reading and achieved a small but statistically…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
Sass, Tim R. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2008
This brief calculates graduation rates for the state of Florida using longitudinal data. The authors describe their measurement strategies and compare them with the state's official measurement procedures. They calculate the diploma and General Education Development (GED) attainment rates of six separate cohorts of Florida 9th graders who began…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Grade 9, High School Students
Blazer, Christie; Froman, Terry; Romanik, Dale – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2006
Research Services calculates enrollment projections on an annual basis. These projections are presented each year at the district's Pupil Population Estimating Conference. For this year's projections, two years of trend data (2005-06 and 2006-07) were used to project student enrollment for 2007-08. Projections are provided by individual grade…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Enrollment Projections, Elementary Secondary Education, Students