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Rachel Jarrold-Grapes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is comprised of three essays on the economics of education. The first and third chapters examine marijuana legalization and its effects on students, while the second chapter examines the impact of pension incentives on teacher quality. The first chapter examines the extent to which there are negative spillovers of recreational…
Descriptors: Economics, Marijuana, Laws, High School Students
Robert Christner – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The digital divide and digital equity have long been a concern for educators, and public schools. In 2020 when the COVID-19 global pandemic swept across the country, public schools closed for in person classes and moved to a new paradigm of online only classes, issues of digital equity and the digital divide became a critical focus for families…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged
Yeung, Ryan – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: This study investigates how the Medicaid Expansion of the Affordable Care Act affected state high school dropout rates. Methods: This study relies on a differences-in-differences estimation strategy that is common in program evaluation, especially in education. This method replicates in a regression framework a classic pre-test…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Dropouts, Health Insurance, High School Students
Yoshida, Natsuho – Education 3-13, 2020
This study investigated the effects of the Continuous Assessment and Progression System (CAPS) on grade repetition and dropout rates as a function of household socio-economic status (SES). Participants attended five schools in urban Myanmar and were classified into three SES groups. Results showed unequal CAPS effects: the middle SES group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Grade Repetition, Dropout Rate
Stroub, Kori; Gill, Patrick – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2021
Tens of thousands of students in the Houston area switched schools during the school year annually. In moving from one school to another, students often experienced disruptions to their education. This study examined what this mobility meant for students' performance on state accountability tests, high school grade retention, high school dropout,…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
Jeffrey M. Welch – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to compare graduation rates, defined as completing high school within five years, of students who learned online in Oregon virtual schools to students who attended traditional schools. The study utilized longitudinal data provided by the Oregon Department of Education connected to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, High Schools, Electronic Learning, Conventional Instruction
Taylor, Jacob-Paul; Zuber, Malgorzata; Shoup, David – Youth & Society, 2023
This research strives to enrich criminological and educational literature by providing a better understanding of relationships among school performance and achievement, attendance, and demographic information based upon the number of exclusionary disciplinary actions within public high schools. Using data on 409 traditional high schools from the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academic Achievement, School Demography, School Effectiveness
Vimbainashe Mhiribidi Chanakira – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a high dropout rate of English language learners (ELLs) compared to non-ELLs at the school under study. Guided by Bass and Burns's transformational leadership conceptual framework, this qualitative study aimed to examine the perceptions of administrators and teachers regarding the influences contributing to the high dropout rate of ELLs.…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, English Language Learners, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Labrador, Manuel Medina; Vargas, Gustavo R. Garcia; Alvarado, Jorge; Caicedo, Mario – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019
The most significant disadvantage in the use of MOOCs is their high drop out rates, which reaches between 88.3% and 90%. This research examined the desertion from 15 MOOCs, the following factors and their relation to desertion were assessed, characteristics of the students (gender, language, educational level, age, interest in the final…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Student Characteristics, Risk
Boithatelo Hlasa; Ntombizandile Gcelu – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
In South Africa, progression refers to the elevation of a learner from one grade to the following grade (excluding grade R), in spite of the learner not having achieved all the promotion stipulations (DBE, 2012a). This article is embedded in a social justice theoretical framework that advocates for a just society through fairness, equal access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Equal Education, Access to Education
Okinyi, Rachel A.; Nyerere, Jackline K. A.; Kariuki, Samson I. – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The efficiency of educational institutions is critical in the justification of resource allocation and use. However, some developing countries like Kenya face efficiency challenges regarding resource utilisation and the flow of students through the school system at various levels of education and programs. Past research in Kenya has focused more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Developing Nations, Resource Allocation
Houston Independent School District, 2021
In alignment with the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act, the state of Texas created section 134.006 of the Texas Education Code in 2009 to provide grants to educational institutions for career and technical education (CTE) programs. This code allows for the creation of CTE programs that prepare students to meet business…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Enrollment, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
Tara Burnham – ProQuest LLC, 2021
At the study site school for this research, the online curriculum in the current blended learning program was not promoting the desired student achievement outcomes. It was unknown if and how research-based best practices associated with blended learning were being implemented. This qualitative case study explored which elements of blended…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, High School Students, Adult Students, Best Practices
Guam Department of Education, 2024
The Guam Department of Education ("GDOE") presents this report in compliance with Guam Public Law ("P.L.") 26-26 that specifically requires the Department to report on the following information in the Annual State of Public Education Report ("ASPER"): (1) Demographic information on public school children in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Trends, Public Schools, School Demography
Guam Department of Education, 2024
The Guam Department of Education (GDOE, Department) is a semi-autonomous agency within the Government of Guam (GovGuam) and is primarily funded through the GovGuam General Fund. The GDOE is a single unified school district that serves just under 30,000 students (from Kindergarten to Grade 12). There are 26 elementary schools, 8 middle schools, 6…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Educational Policy, Governance