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Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 2003
Of the 11,770 new full-time freshman matriculating at Maryland community colleges in fall 1998, 22.9% transferred to a Maryland public four-year college, 8.2% graduated and did not transfer, and 10.5% were still enrolled in a Maryland community college four years later. The combined four-year transfer and community college graduation rate of 31.1%…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Gender Issues
Arizona Department of Education, 2005
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 established a requirement that all states develop and submit to the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) a performance plan designed to advance the state from its current level of compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements of the law…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Graduation Rate
Heslop, Joanne – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2004
This comparative academic performance study of direct entry secondary school students and college transfer students admitted to Simon Fraser University (SFU) was conducted to determine whether differences in university course grades between the two groups still exists when controlling for secondary school performance. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table,…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, College Students, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2005
The "comprehensive" high schools that now educate almost all young people in Colorado and elsewhere in the United States were designed in a different era for a different economy. American comprehensive high schools were intended to provide a basic education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, preparing most students for work and some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Choice, Teaching Methods, African Americans
Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2005
The district conducts a cross-sectional analysis of student dropouts annually; it examines dropout rates among students enrolled in various grades at one point in time. A longitudinal analysis, also conducted annually, tracks a group of students in the same grade or cohort over a period of several years. Each method addresses a different aspect of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Camara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2003
This research note describes data on college persistence, educational attainment, and remediation, and explains the difficulty in interpreting this data.
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Educational Research, School Statistics, Educational Attainment
Camara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2003
This research describes data on college persistence, educational attainment, and remediation, and explains the difficulty in interpreting this data.
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Educational Research, School Statistics, Educational Attainment
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
The Bureau of Education has a record of 19,442 public high schools in the United States. Reports were received from 14,827 for the school year 1923-24, of which number 704 are classified as junior high schools, 1,316 as junior-senior high schools, and 181 as three-year senior high schools. This bulletin summarizes and/or explains data relating to:…
Descriptors: High Schools, Junior High Schools, Public Schools, Enrollment
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Suh, Suhyun; Suh, Jingyo – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2004
This article discusses factors related to eventual high school credentials among dropouts. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/00), the current study found that approximately two-thirds of the sample of high school dropouts eventually attained some form of high school credentials within eight years of their class…
Descriptors: Credentials, High School Graduates, Dropout Research, Dropout Characteristics
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Marchant, Gregory J.; Paulson, Sharon E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
The current study examined the effect of high school graduation exams on states' graduation rates, states' aggregated SAT scores, and individual students' SAT scores. Three data sources were used: One source identified states requiring a standardized test for graduation; the NCES provided state aggregated data on graduation rates for the class of…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Grade Point Average, Graduation Rate, Standardized Tests
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Watson, Mark; McSorley, Michelle; Foxcroft, Cheryl; Watson, Andrea – Tertiary Education and Management, 2004
Both internationally and within South Africa the failure rates at universities are presently high and throughput and graduation rates are low. It is thus imperative that the cognitive and non-cognitive predictors related to identifying learners who will succeed academically are explored. This paper focuses on two potentially important…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation
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Thurston, Allen – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
A new virtual learning environment (VLE) was developed to provide structured support to distance education students undertaking postgraduate study on a core study module of the Master of Education degree at the University of Dundee. Students were offered the option of receiving support via the VLE as opposed to the existing methods, that included…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Investigations, Distance Education, Online Courses
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Year of Math and Science?: Flurry of Congressional Hearings on Economic Competitiveness Focus on High Schools and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Hearings, Educational Change
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Leaving Boys Behind": New Report Finds Higher High School Graduation Rates for Females Across Every Racial…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Graduation Requirements
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Senate Committee Reports Education Spending Bill: Senate Appropriations Bill Continues Cuts to Education Funding;…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Graduation Requirements
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