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Download full textJerald, Craig D. – Achieve, Inc., 2006
This white paper was prepared for Staying the Course: High Standards and Improved Graduation Rates, a joint project of Achieve, Inc. and Jobs for the Future. Its goal is to provide policymakers with an overview of research about the dropout problem and the best strategies for building an early warning data system that can signal which students and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Graduation Rate, High Risk Students, Dropouts
Melton, Dustin – Arizona State Department of Education, 2004
Presently, state and federal school accountability efforts require greater attention to performance measures, such as the graduation rate, which serve as key indicators of a school's success in educating its student population. AZLEARNS, Arizona's school accountability system, includes a school classification system based on a set of performance…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Graduation Rates, Student Goals, and Measuring Community College Effectiveness. CCRC Brief Number 28
Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2005
The educational effectiveness of community colleges is under new scrutiny as a result of both a federal government focus on accountability of higher education institutions and greater competition for the state funds traditionally directed to the colleges. Policymakers, who want to tie public college allocations to their outcomes, and families,…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Graduation Rate, Federal Government, Community Colleges
Bailey, Thomas; Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy; Kienzl, Gregory – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2005
Policymakers, educators, and researchers recognize the importance of community colleges as open door institutions that provide a wide range of students with access to college. At the same time, competing demands for the state funds that would support community colleges have resulted in reduced public allocations and higher student tuition fees.…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy, Community Colleges
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 2002
This report describes the status of public education in Texas, as required by Texas law. It contains an executive summary and 14 chapters on the following topics: (1) state performance on the academic-excellence indicators; (2) a summary compilation of overall student performance on the state performance assessments and a study of the correlation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Gains, Charter Schools
Ohio Board of Regents, 2005
This fifth annual Performance Report for Ohio's Colleges and Universities uses a variety of data and data sources to describe higher education in Ohio from students' academic preparation to learning environments, student progress, degree achievement, and licensure and employment outcomes. The report also provides a wealth of information about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Aid, Profiles, Technical Institutes
