This report presents Special Education Indicator Performance data tables for 173 Bureau of Indian Education schools. Indicators include: (1) Graduation Rate; (2) Dropouts; (3) Assessment Targets; (4) Assessment Targets--Reading; (5) Assessment Targets--Mathematics; (6) Suspensions and Expulsions--High School; (7) Suspensions and…

This report presents Special Education Indicator Performance data tables for 174 Bureau of Indian Education schools. Indicators include: (1) Graduation Rate; (2) Dropouts; (3) Assessment Targets; (4) Assessment Targets--Reading; (5) Assessment Targets--Mathematics; (6) Suspensions and Expulsions--High School; (7) Suspensions and…

This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and the dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools in school year 2007-08. The counts of graduates, dropouts, and enrollments by grade are from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal…

This report updates a series of NCES reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. The report includes national and regional population estimates for the percentage of students who dropped out of high school between 2008 and 2009, the percentage of young people who were dropouts in 2009, and the percentage of young people…

This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates in 2008, provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three and a half decades (1972-2008), and examines the characteristics of high…

"The Condition of Education 2018" is a congressionally mandated annual report summarizing the latest data on education in the United States. This report is designed to help policymakers and the public monitor educational progress. This report contains indicators on the state of education in the United States, from prekindergarten through…

This annual publication provides a summary of training activity in apprenticeships and traineeships in Australia, from the period 1998 to 2008, including information on training rates, attrition rates, completion rates, training within the trades and duration of training. The figures in this publication are derived from the National Apprentice and…

One of the major obstacles to determining the severity of the dropout problem is the difficulty of defining what constitutes a dropout. Regardless of the definition used, evidence has been cited showing that shorthand courses, in relation to other subjects, fall within the middle range regarding dropouts. (Author/BP)

Treats the proportion of dropouts from secondary schools as leading indicators of the educational system's performance and reviews the use of certain variables for the prediction of dropout flows. The underlying relationships are studied in the form of a two-equation econometric model. (Author/IRT)

This research investigated whether or not "time lags" are related to the dropout rates of job applicants. The effect of duration of these time lags, periods between initial job application and psychological testing, on differential dropout rates of minority and majority candidates was also examined. (Author/RK)

In compliance with state legislation, the Texas Education Agency prepares an annual report on dropouts in Texas public schools. As in past years, this report contains historical dropout data, a summary of dropout rates based on school district characteristics, and a listing of annual dropout rates broken down by county, district, and campus. A…

This report presents statistics on the dropout rate for the Wake County Public Schools, North Carolina. Before the 1997-98 school year, a steady decline had occurred in the Wake County Public School System's unduplicated dropout rate for grades 7 through 12. The unduplicated dropout rate is the percent of first-time dropouts. The dropout rate rose…

Critics claim that the "dropout rate" as currently used in Texas and other states captures only a snapshot of a group of students at one time. To expand ways of reporting school completion rates, detailed completion data were assembled for four cohorts of Texas high school students, the graduating classes of 1994 through 1997. Completion…

This study, which focused on the 1998-99 school year, addresses dropout rates for individual schools, districts, counties, and the state of Arizona categorized by grade, gender, race/ethnicity, withdrawal type, school-year and summer dropouts, county, and district. The data include actual student enrollment and dropout counts as well as status…

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss a detailed analysis of the basic data collected by the Select Committee on Teacher Education together with supplementary data contained in the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education (A. T. C. D. E.) Handbook for 1969. (Author/RK)