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Author : Aaron M. Pallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Dropouts
ISBN : UCR:31210024773531
Author : Russell W. Rumberger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674063167
The vast majority of kids in the developed world finish high school—but not in the United States. More than a million kids drop out every year, around 7,000 a day, and the numbers are rising. Dropping Out offers a comprehensive overview by one of the country’s leading experts, and provides answers to fundamental questions: Who drops out, and why? What happens to them when they do? How can we prevent at-risk kids from short-circuiting their futures? Students start disengaging long before they get to high school, and the consequences are severe—not just for individuals but for the larger society and economy. Dropouts never catch up with high school graduates on any measure. They are less likely to find work at all, and more likely to live in poverty, commit crimes, and suffer health problems. Even life expectancy for dropouts is shorter by seven years than for those who earn a diploma. Russell Rumberger advocates targeting the most vulnerable students as far back as the early elementary grades. And he levels sharp criticism at the conventional definition of success as readiness for college. He argues that high schools must offer all students what they need to succeed in the workplace and independent adult life. A more flexible and practical definition of achievement—one in which a high school education does not simply qualify you for more school—can make school make sense to young people. And maybe keep them there.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : High school dropouts
ISBN : UIUC:30112101045356
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309170581
The role played by testing in the nation's public school system has been increasing steadily-and growing more complicated-for more than 20 years. The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity (CEETE) was formed to monitor the effects of education reform, particularly testing, on students at risk for academic failure because of poverty, lack of proficiency in English, disability, or membership in population subgroups that have been educationally disadvantaged. The committee recognizes the important potential benefits of standards-based reforms and of test results in revealing the impact of reform efforts on these students. The committee also recognizes the valuable role graduation tests can potentially play in making requirements concrete, in increasing the value of a diploma, and in motivating students and educators alike to work to higher standards. At the same time, educational testing is a complicated endeavor, that reality can fall far short of the model, and that testing cannot by itself provide the desired benefits. If testing is improperly used, it can have negative effects, such as encouraging school leaving, that can hit disadvantaged students hardest. The committee was concerned that the recent proliferation of high school exit examinations could have the unintended effect of increasing dropout rates among students whose rates are already far higher than the average, and has taken a close look at what is known about influences on dropout behavior and at the available data on dropouts and school completion.
Author : National Academy of Education,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Committee for Improved Measurement of High School Dropout and Completion Rates: Expert Guidance on Next Steps for Research and Policy Workshop
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309163071
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 later completes a GED? How does one count a student who spends most of his/her high school years at one school and then transfers to another? If the student graduates, which school should receive credit? If the student drops out, which school should take responsibility? High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates addresses these issues and to examine (1) the strengths, limitations, accuracy, and utility of the available dropout and completion measures; (2) the state of the art with respect to longitudinal data systems; and (3) ways that dropout and completion rates can be used to improve policy and practice.
Author : Mary J. Frase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Dropout behavior, Prediction of
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025431437
Author : Marilyn M. McMillens,Phillip Kaufman,Summer D. Whitener
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0788126423
Presents data for 1993 on high school dropout and retention rates. Also examines high school completion and graduation rates. Over 40 charts, tables and graphs.
Author : Phillip Kaufman,Martha Naomi Alt,Christopher D. Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160509742
This report is the 13th in a series that focuses on high school dropout and completion rates, presenting data on 2000 rates and including time series data on high school dropout and completion rates for 1972-00. In addition to extending time series data reported in earlier years, this report examines the characteristics of high school dropouts and high school completers in 2000. It shows that while progress was made during the 1970s and 1980s in reducing high school dropout rates and increasing high school completion rates, these rates remained comparatively stable during the 1990s. Data are presented on event and status dropout rates and high school completion rates, with statistics on income, race/ethnicity, age and sex, and region and state. Overall, in October 2000, 5 out of every 100 youths enrolled in high school in October 1999 had dropped out. They accounted for approximately one-half million of the 10 million people age 15-14 years enrolled in high school in the previous October. Four appendices, which comprise half of the report, feature standard error tables for text tables, tables in support of figures, supplemental tables, and technical notes. (Contains 27 tables and 6 figures.) (SM)
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Federal aid to education
ISBN : LOC:00005907391
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Dropouts
ISBN : LOC:0010095994A
Author : Stephen Lamb,Eifred Markussen,Richard Teese,Nina Sandberg,John Polesel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048197637
School dropout remains a persistent and critical issue in many school systems, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as a crisis. Populations across the globe have come to depend on success at school for establishing careers and gaining access to post-school qualifications. Yet large numbers of young people are excluded from the advantages that successful completion of school brings and as a result are subjected to consequences such as higher likelihood of unemployment, lower earnings, greater dependence on welfare and poorer physical health and well-being. Over recent decades, most western nations have stepped up their efforts to reduce drop out and raise school completion rates while maintaining high standards. How school systems have approached this, and how successful they are, varies. This book compares the various approaches by evaluating their impact on rates of dropout and completion. Case studies of national systems are used to highlight the different approaches including institutional arrangements and the various alternative secondary school programs and their outcomes. The evaluation is based on several key questions: What are the main approaches? How do they work? For whom do they work? And, how successful are they in promoting high rates of completion and equivalent outcomes for all? This book examines the nature of the dropout problem in advanced industrialized countries with the goal of developing a broader, international understanding that can feed into public policy to help improve completion rates worldwide.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094745837
Author : National Education Association of the United States. Project on School Dropouts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Dropouts
ISBN : MINN:31951000153174S
Author : Gary Orfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059559313
Only half of our nation's minority students graduate from high school. Dropouts in America confronts the challenges facing urban schools, as well as strategies to combat increasing high school dropout rates in the face of higher academic expectations.
Author : Russell W. Rumberger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674266896
The vast majority of kids in the developed world finish high school—but not in the United States. More than a million kids drop out every year, around 7,000 a day, and the numbers are rising. Dropping Out offers a comprehensive overview by one of the country’s leading experts, and provides answers to fundamental questions: Who drops out, and why? What happens to them when they do? How can we prevent at-risk kids from short-circuiting their futures? Students start disengaging long before they get to high school, and the consequences are severe—not just for individuals but for the larger society and economy. Dropouts never catch up with high school graduates on any measure. They are less likely to find work at all, and more likely to live in poverty, commit crimes, and suffer health problems. Even life expectancy for dropouts is shorter by seven years than for those who earn a diploma. Rumberger advocates targeting the most vulnerable students as far back as the early elementary grades. And he levels sharp criticism at the conventional definition of success as readiness for college. He argues that high schools must offer all students what they need to succeed in the workplace and independent adult life. A more flexible and practical definition of achievement—one in which a high school education does not simply qualify you for more school—can make school make sense to young people. And maybe keep them there.