Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
| Grade 8 | 2 |
| High Schools | 2 |
| Urban Education | 2 |
| Academic Failure | 1 |
| Community Involvement | 1 |
| Dropout Attitudes | 1 |
| Dropout Characteristics | 1 |
| Educational Policy | 1 |
| Enrollment Rate | 1 |
| Enrollment Trends | 1 |
| Exit Examinations | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| National Bureau of Economic… | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
| Grade 10 | 1 |
| Grade 8 | 1 |
| High Schools | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Massachusetts | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkPapay, John P.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
The growing prominence of high-stakes exit examinations has made questions about their effects on student outcomes increasingly important. We take advantage of a natural experiment to evaluate the causal effects of failing a high-stakes test on high school completion for the cohort scheduled to graduate from Massachusetts high schools in 2006.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Low Income, Exit Examinations, Grade 8
Kyle, Charles L.; And Others – 1989
Although the Illinois school attendance statute does not allow youth to drop out of school before the age of 16 years, many of the students listed as chronic truants are actually dropouts. Computer analyses of school records in the Chicago Public Schools were conducted to assess the number of eighth graders who never entered ninth grade. Later,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Policy
