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Niu, Sunny X.; Tienda, Marta – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Using a longitudinal sample of Texas high school seniors of 2002 who enrolled in college within the calendar year of high school graduation, we examine variation in college persistence according to the economic composition of their high schools, which serves as a proxy for unmeasured high school attributes that are conductive to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Time to Degree, Institutional Characteristics, School Demography
Johnson, Roy L.; Montes, Felix – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2014
Since 1986, Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) has conducted an annual attrition study to track the number and percent of students in Texas who are lost from public secondary school enrollment prior to graduation. The study builds on the series of studies that began when IDRA conducted the first comprehensive study of school…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Public Schools, Secondary School Students, Dropouts