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Kasouha, Abeir – ProQuest LLC, 2011
With the open door enrollment polices that community colleges have, diversity is increasingly present in community colleges. This diversity includes ability levels, ethnicity, and English as a Second Language learners (ESL). This raises a big issue of having a big gap in academic preparation among students within the same classroom. To solve this…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Language Proficiency
Halpin, Sean X. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Public education in the United States struggles to prepare all students for success in post-secondary education and careers. One reason attributed to dropouts, student-disconnect, and low levels of achievement is that too many students attend large, impersonal schools where they are not engaged in learning. Many policy makers view the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, High School Students, Small Classes
Janecek, Uvaldina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The influx of Mexican immigrants has posed enormous challenges to the nation's public school systems where migration is rapidly increasing. The high Hispanic dropout rate points to a failure in educating Latinos and has received ample attention from researchers, educators, and policymakers; but the achievement disparities persist. Using the lens…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Immigrants, Parents, Teachers
Serra, Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study was designed to analyze the percentage of students pursuing selected Career and Technical Education (CTE) vocational courses in schools throughout the State of Florida and to determine if there is a relationship to school district size during school year 2008-2009. The study sought to determine if smaller districts are more…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, High School Students
Wilson, Frank E., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
High dropout rates and low on-time graduation rates across the United States suggest that for many students proper transitioning is not taking place from middle schools to high schools. This study was designed to examine what measure perceptions and expectations held by students, faculty, and parents dealing with transition from middle school to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Graduation Rate, Self Efficacy
Fears-Hackett, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation analyzes the motivations, perspectives, and barriers of adult learners returning to school to receive a high school diploma after previously dropping out of a traditional high school setting. Specifically, this study explored the backgrounds, discrimination factors, income variables, perspectives, and environmental and emotional…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes
Haick, Daniel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What keeps students engaged in high school? Persisting to high school graduation is becoming more difficult for many students with the increased rigor of American high school graduation requirements. While many factors that contribute to students not completing high school have been explored, and while many interventions have been developed to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, High Schools, Intervention, Dropout Rate
Gilbert, Craig – ProQuest LLC, 2012
High numbers of dropouts can be found throughout the country, but research has shown the problem to be most prevalent in minority communities. Although the majority of dropouts were Anglo, the highest event dropout rates were found among American Indians, Hispanics and African Americans. This descriptive study investigated how students negotiate…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Rate, Incidence, Minority Groups
Bartlett, Lydia I. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
American public schools are in crisis. Schools across America are grasping to change curriculum, build learning communities, and increase teacher accountability to meet the moving target of the demands placed on them by "No Child Left Behind." As the deadline of 2014 grows nearer with every passing year, accountability standards increase…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Educational Change
Gonzalez, Liana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Dropout rates impacting students with high-incidence disabilities in American schools remain staggering (Bost, 2006; Hehir, 2005). Of this group, students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD) are at greatest risk. Despite the mandated national propagation of inclusion, students with EBD remain the least included and the least successful when…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Learning Disabilities, Dropouts, Graduation
Darrow, Robert Worthington – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The percentage of students who graduate from high school within four years in the United States has remained between 65 and 70% since the late 1960s. Despite various educational reforms, the number of students who are at-risk of dropping out of high school has remained constant, increasing in some years and decreasing in other years. Two…
Descriptors: High Schools, Charter Schools, Dropouts, Comparative Analysis
Lange, Tennille W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Pre-GED (General Education Development) and Skills Options Program was a response by one state to the national increase in high school dropout rates. However, more than a decade later dropout rates continued to rise. As a result, an evaluation of the program was needed. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the purpose of the program,…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High School Students, Dropout Rate, Program Effectiveness
Miller, Colton D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
"Indigenous" college students in both Canada and the United States have the lowest rates of obtaining postsecondary degrees, and their postsecondary dropout rates are higher than for any other minority (Freeman & Fox, 2005; Mendelson, 2004; Reddy, 1993). There has been very little research done to uncover possible reasons for such…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropouts, Academic Persistence, Cultural Differences
Walker, Quiteya Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Although much has been written about the relationship between career maturity and career decision self-efficacy of college students, the literature review provided no studies that investigated the relationship between career maturity, career decision self-efficacy, and self-advocacy; therefore the purpose of this study was to explore the…
Descriptors: Careers, College Students, Vocational Maturity, Student Attitudes
Bedka-Strain, Kathy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In recent years, the number of students enrolled in alternative schools who are at-risk for academic failure has significantly increased. Students with disabilities, primarily students with emotional and behavioral disabilities and learning disabilities, are increasingly educated in alternative settings. Placement of students in alternative…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Educational Environment
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