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Rodríguez-Gómez, David; Feixas, Mònica; Gairín, Joaquín; Muñoz, José Luís – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The dropout rate is an indicator of complex analysis and there is no consensus on its significance. Universities lack systematized, univocal methods for collecting student dropout data, making measurement problematic. In consequence, the formulas applied to analyze this phenomenon differ between countries and it is therefore an immense challenge…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
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Lastra-Bravo, Xavier B.; Tolón-Becerra, Alfredo; Salinas-Andújar, José A. – International Review of Education, 2013
According to the European Commission's "Europe 2020" strategy, the early school leaving (ESL) rate in European Union (EU) Member States must be reduced to a maximum of 10 per cent by 2020. This paper proposes a nonlinear distribution method based on dynamic targets for reducing the percentage of early school leavers. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Dropout Rate
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De Witte, Kristof; Cabus, Sofie J. – Educational Review, 2013
In line with the Lisbon Agenda, set by the European Council in the year 2000, European governments formulated ambitious plans to halve the level of early school-leavers by 2012. This paper outlines the dropout prevention measures in the Netherlands and analyzes their influence at both the individual and school level. While most policy measures…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance), Dropout Prevention
Grey House Publishing, 2018
This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide.This edition includes profiles on 5,749 school districts in the United States, representing 90% of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Public Schools, School Districts
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2018
The California Community Colleges served 2.1 million students in 2015-16 and 2.1 million students in 2016-17. It is the largest system of higher education in the nation. Each of the 115 colleges in all 73 districts use state funding allocated for Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS) to assist in providing support services and educational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Disabilities, College Faculty
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Patrick, Megan E.; Schulenberg, John E.; O'Malley, Patrick M. – Youth & Society, 2016
National data from Monitoring the Future were used to examine patterns and predictors of college attendance. Samples of American 12th-grade students from 1977 to 2003 were followed for 7 years (modal ages 18-25; N = 10,020). College attendance and graduation patterns varied considerably over historical time and based on family background.…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Dropouts, Substance Abuse, High School Seniors
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2016
"Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline among LGBTQ Youth" provides an in-depth look at the conditions that effectively push LGBTQ youth out of school and potentially into the criminal justice system. The report provides specific, real world guidance to address the hostile school climates and…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, At Risk Students
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James, Adrienne Brant; Lunday, Tammy – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2014
In traditional tribal cultures, children are treated with great respect and eagerly learn from their elders. But in contemporary Western society, Native students have the highest dropout rates and are subjected to disproportionate school disciplinary exclusion, which becomes a pipeline into the justice system (Sprague, Vincent, Tobin, & Pavel,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, American Indian Culture, American Indian Students
Froman, Terry – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2014
This report focuses on the percentages of graduates and dropouts in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools when broken down by both ethnicity/race and gender. The percentages in outcome categories for this report are based on a four-year adjusted cohort model. For the purposes of this report, students at the end of their four-year high school…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Differences, Achievement Rating, Gender Differences
Froman, Terry – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2014
This report focuses on the percentages of graduates and dropouts in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools when broken down by both ethnicity/race and gender for years 2011-12 and 2012-13. The percentages in outcome categories for this report are based on a four-year adjusted cohort model. For the purposes of this report, students at the end of…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Utah State Office of Education, 2014
The 2013 cohort report includes: (1) State Cohort Graduation and Dropout Rates; (2) Federal 4 Year Graduation Rate Comparisons; and (3) Graduation, Other Completer, Continuing Students and Dropouts by LEA and High School. [For the 2012 report, see ED591122.]
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Federal Legislation, Racial Differences
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Borgen, Solveig T.; Borgen, Nicolai T. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
High dropout rates from upper secondary school are related to substantial societal costs, and are hence a major policy concern. The Norwegian folk high schools provide a non-academic education in an intimate and nurturing environment where interpersonal and social skills are emphasised, and where individuals grow in sense of self-esteem and sense…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Folk Schools, Dropouts, Educational Policy
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Rosen, Jeffrey A.; Chen, Xianglei; Ingels, Steven – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This Data Point utilizes data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a nationally representative, longitudinal study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders in 2009. HSLS:09 surveyed students, their parents, math and science teachers, school administrators, and school counselors. The study included information about students who were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Longitudinal Studies, Student Surveys
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Croteau, Emily – Open Praxis, 2017
In 2014, the state of Georgia's budget supported a University System of Georgia (USG) initiative: Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG). The initiative was implemented via Textbook Transformation Grants, which provided grants to USG faculty, libraries and librarians, and institutions to "transform their use of textbooks and other learning…
Descriptors: College Students, State Aid, Grants, Textbooks
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Mughal, Abdul Waheed; Aldridge, Jo – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
This study investigates head teachers' perspectives of the school dropout problem at public secondary schools in rural Punjab, Pakistan. The study is based on qualitative methods and included interviews to collect primary data. Sixteen districts of the Punjab where secondary school dropout rate is above 20% were purposively selected for the study.…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary Schools, Rural Schools
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