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Ascher, Carol; Maguire, Cindy – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
This report describes a follow-up qualitative study, conducted in 2006 by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, of a small group of New York City high schools that were "beating the odds" in preparing low-performing 9th-grade students for timely high school graduation and college going. The 13 schools included two long-established…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Qualitative Research, Grade 9, High School Students
Lewis, Anne C. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
With the reality that school districts and states are now being required to report high school graduation rates under the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act, the accuracy of dropout data is becoming a major issue. For more than a decade, the official dropout figures came from a consensus definition used by the National Center for…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, High School Students