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Bright, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Educators and the general public are often discouraged by grim reports by the media regarding our nation's standing with regard to education and the policies that attempt to improve that standing. This study examined (a) the percentage of students identified as needing special education, (b) graduation rates, and (c) dropout rates from a sample of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Demography, Incidence
Bolden, Jason Pierre – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between five school productivity measures at 248 Tennessee high schools and educators' perceptions of these institutions' climate for student discipline. Grounded in archived accountability information stored on the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) website, these five productivity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Discipline, Educational Environment
Kersey, Rhonda L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
There have been several studies regarding the factors as to why students drop out of high school in both urban and rural areas. However, there have been few studies, which have examined why female students in rural areas have left high school before graduating. From 2010-2014, there had been a 29% increase in the dropout rate among female…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Case Studies, Females, Qualitative Research
Harvey, Jeffrey Wade – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The educational plight of Hispanic students coupled with the financial shortages facing many districts throughout the state of Texas have forced schools to become more innovative and creative to engage unmotivated learners. This qualitative study was designed to examine the influence of interscholastic soccer participation on Hispanic male student…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Team Sports, Males, Athletics
Powell, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Special education students' graduation rate in high school is 61%, compared to regular high school students at 80%, as noted in a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to identify and describe strategies that reduce the dropout rate of overaged special education students. The…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Special Education, Graduation Rate, High School Students
Cuyuch, Leslie Gale Reamsma – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English learners (ELs) in Florida face numerous challenges including low test scores, and high dropout rates, and are typically several years behind their peers when compared to other states. The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental ex-post-facto study was to compare the differences between ACCESS 2.0 scores of high school ELs in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English Language Learners, Barriers, Dropout Rate
Pangelinan, Yvonne R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Over the last 5 years, high school students with disabilities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) have experienced a higher rate of dropout compared to their peers, adding to an ever-widening gap in learning and graduation rates. The rationale for this study was the growing numbers of dropouts among students with…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disabilities, Dropout Rate, At Risk Students
Tash, Michael Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Chronic absenteeism affects the majority of schools in the United States. An assessment of centers of learning illustrates that a majority of students miss a month of learning in an academic year through excused or unexcused absences. The majority of schools exhibit 95% average daily attendance rates, as the learners tend to not miss school, on…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Postsecondary Education
Nelson, Elizabeth Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School districts in the state of Missouri are required to provide an education to all students, including those on suspension, and many other states have similar requirements. The number of alternative programs has grown over the last 50 years, and most districts provide some type of alternative program for at-risk students. With few state…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Best Practices, High Schools, High School Students
Gower, Matthew Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As four-day school weeks continue to gain popularity among school districts across the United States, determining the potential impact associated with the unconventional school week has become increasingly important (Johnson, 2013). The four-day school week has been credited with producing a number of potential benefits and consequences, but there…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Academic Achievement, Attendance, Scores
Rook, Johan Erik – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Each year, almost one-fourth of all public high school students, and nearly one-third of all blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, fail to graduate from public high school with their class. Course failures and high school dropout rates are nationally higher in the ninth grade than in any other high school grade level, and 19% fail to graduate.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Grade 9, Secondary School Teachers, High School Students
Branch, James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Community colleges enroll nearly half of the students in public undergraduate programs and a disproportionate number of first-generation, low-income, underprepared, and minority students. The new national completion agenda initiated by President Barack Obama had brought both visibility and pressure to community colleges, which had completion rates…
Descriptors: Case Studies, African American Students, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Bentley, Melissa L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In an attempt to maintain on-time graduation rates and reduce dropout rates, school districts, such as the one in this study, implement credit recovery programs. In an effort to improve student graduation rates and address graduation disparities, the Virginia school district in this study implements a summer credit recovery program that utilizes…
Descriptors: High School Students, Credits, Online Courses, Summer Programs
Alshehri, Farraj Ali – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are widespread and still growing due to their modernity and proliferation. However, one of the concerns of MOOCs is the high dropout rate of enrollees. Focusing on this issue, especially in Saudi Arabia where there is a lack of literature and special characteristics such as adopting single-sex education system,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology
Brown, Lindsey – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Nationally, and within Montana, Native American college student retention and graduation rates are significantly lower than those of their majority counterparts. Native American high school students have the highest dropout rates, lowest college enrollment rates, and lowest percentage distribution of degrees conferred of any minority population in…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, High School Students, Dropout Rate, Enrollment
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