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Andry, Beverly Guillory – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The city of New Orleans has embarked on an historic experiment reinventing its schools--once considered among the worst in the country--from a centralized, single district model of education to a two district model in which both the Recovery School District (RSD) and the preexisting Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) both operate direct run and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Charter Schools, Dropout Rate, Educational Assessment
Jonathon Anthony Szymanski – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Public education has long been the subject of public discontent. Historical events such as the Soviet launch of "Sputnik" in 1957, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and repeated media reports that U.S. students were outscored by students in many other countries on international tests each prompted federal and state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Student Behavior, Accountability
Mindy L. Crain-Dorough – ProQuest LLC, 2003
This sequential, three-phase study used quantitative analyses to examine the characteristics of student dropouts and the characteristics of schools successful and unsuccessful in mediating dropouts. Narrative profiles were created to describe types of students and types of dropouts. Phase I consisted of three parts, each using the student as the…
Descriptors: Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Institutional Characteristics