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Stillwell, Robert; Sable, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
This report presents the number of high school completers, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and the dropout data for grades 9-12 for public schools in school year 2009-10. State Education Agencies (SEAs) report annual counts of completers, dropouts, and enrollments to the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Common Core of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropouts, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate
Bachler, Paul T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges have been criticized for having lower graduation rates than four year colleges, but few studies have looked at non-graduation transfer, in which a student leaves the community college for a four-year college without taking an associate degree. The current study utilizes institutional data and a discrete-time event history model…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, At Risk Students, Dropouts, Graduation Rate
Kaestner, Robert; Grossman, Michael; Yarnoff, Benjamin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of teens between the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Adolescents, Body Weight, Dropout Rate
Waters, Elsa G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study was an effort to fill a gap in the research about why there are higher drop-out rates for students in online classrooms than students in traditional classrooms. Educators and administrators at online higher education institutions need information with which to address drop-out rates because the decreased number of completed online…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Leadership, Leadership Qualities
Caruso, Janet – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The academic achievement, dropout rate, and demographics of students enrolled in traditional face-to-face and online courses at a community college located in the suburbs of New York State were examined. Courses offered during the fall 2010 semester in both instructional delivery models were selected from arts and humanities, behavioral science,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Brannon, Paul Conard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Regardless of the relentless efforts of the federal and state government, as well as those of local school districts, students not completing high school continue to weigh down the educational system and society as a whole. Schools face the challenge of transforming the inclination for students to drop out of school with the associated damaging…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, School Districts, Program Evaluation
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Barrat, Vanessa X.; Berliner, Bethann; Fong, Anthony B. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2012
The customary perception is that students who drop out vanish from school enrollment rosters for good. This is an incomplete picture of the complex dropout story; dropping out is not necessarily a permanent high school outcome. Following the enrollment and course history of a district cohort of first-time 9th graders, this article documents the…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Dropouts, Credits, Enrollment
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Yanqing, Ding – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
After a brief review of the achievements and the problems in compulsory education enrollment in the thirty years since the reform and opening up, this study analyzes the current compulsory education enrollment and dropout rates in China's least-developed regions and the factors affecting school enrollment based on survey data from a small sample…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Enrollment Rate, Dropout Rate, Compulsory Education
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Harrison, Allyson G.; Areepattamannil, Shaljan; Freeman, John – Exceptionality Education International, 2012
This study examined the effects of participation in the Learning Opportunities Task Force (LOTF) programs on postsecondary students with learning disabilities (LDs). Data regarding 969 students from 6 colleges and 4 universities in Ontario were evaluated to investigate rates of academic success and increased self-awareness. Participants had a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education
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Kubitskey, Beth W.; Vath, Richard J.; Johnson, Heather J.; Fishman, Barry J.; Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Park, Gina J. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
As teacher professional development research includes more experimental designs, new challenges arise. We examine the threat of participant attrition as an example of the types of problems researchers face. Counter-intuitively, higher levels of recruitment effort were related to higher dropout rates among teachers. We also found that teachers left…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Dropout Rate, Research Design
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Salmela-Aro, Katariina – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Educational transitions and the transition from school to working life present substantial challenges for youth in modern societies. In addition to the drastic changes taking place in their personal lives as they navigate the educational ladder and the transition to work life, young adults today face profound changes in society as well. In…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Young Adults
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Schoeneberger, Jason A. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
The elementary and middle grades are a time of great developmental changes with the potential to impact children's longer-term growth. As students progress through their formal schooling during these time periods, the potential exists for children either to follow a course of healthy development associated with positive outcomes or to experience…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropouts, At Risk Students, Identification
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, has weathered changes of many types, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005. After having to close for the 2005-2006 school year, the school reopened as a charter school with a board and stepped up its efforts to raise student achievement. Now the school is receiving attention for the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Graduation
Hauser, Robert M., Ed.; Koenig, Judith Anderson, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2011
High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may seem like a straightforward task, their calculation is in fact quite complicated. How does one count a student who leaves a regular high school but…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Well Being, Graduation Rate, High Schools
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2017
The "2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book" urges policymakers not to back away from targeted investments that help U.S. children become healthier, more likely to complete high school and better positioned to contribute to the nation's economy as adults. The "Data Book" also shows the child poverty rate in 2015 continued to drop, landing…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economic Impact, Annual Reports, Well Being
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