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Melton, Dustin – Arizona State Department of Education, 2004
Presently, state and federal school accountability efforts require greater attention to performance measures, such as the graduation rate, which serve as key indicators of a school's success in educating its student population. AZLEARNS, Arizona's school accountability system, includes a school classification system based on a set of performance…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Herlihy, Corinne M.; Quint, Janet – National High School Center, 2006
The National High School Center released methods for improving low-performing high schools based on some of the most rigorous research currently available in the school reform arena. This research brief identifies lessons learned as well as key practices used to strengthen high schools and is based on evaluations of four widely used high school…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Graduation Rate, Improvement Programs
US Government Accountability Office, 2005
About a third of students entering high school do not graduate and face limited job prospects. The No Child Left Behind Act requires states to use graduation rates to measure how well students are educated. To assess the accuracy of states' rates and to review programs that may increase rates, GAO was asked to examine (1) the graduation rate…
Descriptors: State Government, Data Collection, Federal Legislation, Intervention
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2008
The "Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998" (commonly referred to as "Perkins," "Perkins III," or "the Act" and referred to hereafter as Perkins III) requires, in Sec. 113(c)(3)(C), that the secretary provide the appropriate committees of Congress copies of annual reports received by…
Descriptors: Credentials, Student Participation, Program Effectiveness, School Holding Power
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Edmunds, Julie A.; McColskey, Wendy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2007
This descriptive report examines the strategies of the six Southeast Region states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina) to improve high school graduation rates and student achievement and to increase the number of students leaving high school with the skills and knowledge necessary for the twenty-first…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Graduation Rate