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Download full textHosley, Nathaniel S.; Hosley, Jessica; Thein, Myint – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2009
This research is a follow up to a similar study published by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania in 2003 in which researchers examined alternative education policies and practices among Pennsylvania school districts. The current study extended the previous research to include information on the perceptions of administrators and teachers on the…
Descriptors: Attendance, At Risk Students, Nontraditional Education, School Districts
Christian, Cinda; Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2008
State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under Chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995, amended 2007), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Equal Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
West Virginia State Dept. of Education, Charleston. Div. of General and Special Educational Development. – 1987
Reported in this document are dropout statistics from the State of West Virginia for the school year 1985-86. This annual survey of the 55 county school systems has been conducted since the 1968-69 school year. Topics surveyed include Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) status, exit interviews, grade at exit, month dropout left…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Robledo, Maria del Refugio, Ed. – 1986
This report summarizes the results of a large-scale study of the dropout problem in Texas. The report is divided into three major sections which deal with these questions, respectively: (1) What is the magnitude of the dropout problem in Texas? (2) What is the economic impact of the dropout problem for Texas? and (3) What is the nature and…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Baker, Janice; Sansone, Janet – 1988
Dropout prevention has become a compelling priority for school personnel. But high school dropout research leaves many school variables largely unexamined. This study describes a staffing committee that had been established in a large urban high school during the 1986-87 school year and responded specifically to referrals of students who were…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Bard, Bernard – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "The Kiwanis Magazine, Volume 53 (September 1968), 22-25, 42.
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
CANNADAY, FRANK W. – 1962
A STUDY OF DROPOUTS IN ARKANSAS PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, 1940-41 THROUGH 1960-61 IS PRESENTED. TABLES SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PUPILS LEAVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES AS COMPARED TO THE NUMBER LEAVING ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEFORE GRADUATION ARE GIVEN. THE TREND OF THE ARKANSAS SCHOOLS INDICATES INCREASED HOLDING POWER OF…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Elementary Schools
RANDALL, CHARLES V.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE IN THE BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT THE DROPOUT RATE, DROPOUT CHARACTERISTICS, AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUDENT AFTER HE DROPS OUT. THE DATA IS DESIGNED TO BE USED TO DETERMINE WAYS TO REDUCE THE DROPOUT RATE. THE BLOOMINGTON DROPOUT RATE IS HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL DROPOUT RATE BECAUSE GENERAL…
Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Peer reviewedLevin, Henry M. – Educational Leadership, 1987
The substance of current educational reform neglects disadvantaged students while their numbers have increased 30 percent since 1960. Raising standards without providing strategies for helping disadvantaged students will increase the already high dropout rate. Discusses ways to mobilize instructional and community resources for disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Educational Change, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedBrown, James M.; Kayser, Terrence F. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1985
Presents a model based on person-environment fit that is designed to increase retention of students with unique educational needs in postsecondary vocational education programs. The specific details that surround the development of this model are examined and are related to the nature and extent of the problem. (CT)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Educational Needs, Individual Needs
Kallus, Richard, Ed. – 2001
This annual report presents comprehensive findings about high school completion and non-completion in Texas public schools. It includes state summaries of the annual grades 7-12 dropout rate used in the accountability system and a new series of longitudinal high school completion/student status rates. The series includes four-year rates for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Wang, Jenny; Wu, Emily – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to identify the significant characteristics of distance education students who have dropped-out or continuously and successfully progressed in the distance education program at the NOU of Taiwan. The major focus was based on the found factors which might relate to the students' decisions for dropping out or staying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Dropout Prevention
Texas Univ., Austin. Center for Public Policy Priorities. – 1999
Texas has the third highest dropout rate in the nation. Various organizations that measure the Texas dropout rate using different methods disagree about actual numbers of dropouts. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) reports that 26,901 students in grades 7-12 dropped out in the 1996-97 school year. Dropouts were 29 percent White, 18 percent African…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Direct linkMindy 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
Stanley, Kylie R.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2008
In May 2008, the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) issued the Education Policy Brief, "Calculating High School Graduation Rates," which discussed the importance of accurate and reliable high school graduation data, various graduation rate calculation methods, the history behind the use of particular methodologies, and…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Intervention, Graduation Rate, Dropout Prevention
