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Mishel, Lawrence; Roy, Joydeep – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Conventional wisdom claims a newly discovered dropout crisis in high schools. Jay Greene, of the Manhattan Institute, and Christopher Swanson, formerly with the Urban Institute, are primarily responsible for this claim, publishing reports showing these extraordinary high dropout rates nationwide, for the states, and for many specific school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Swanson, Christopher B. – Editorial Projects in Education, 2008
Graduation rates have become a prominent feature in the landscape of high school reform and within the larger world of educational policy. Studies conducted over the past several years have repeatedly demonstrated that far fewer American students are completing high school with diplomas than had previously been realized. Whereas the conventional…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Graduation Rate, Graduation, Metropolitan Areas
US Department of Commerce, 2008
This handbook was developed for high school teachers looking for new sources of timely information and ways to make courses more engaging and relevant to students. The American Community Survey (ACS) provides a wide online array of social, economic, and demographic information about the nation, states, and local communities. These data can be…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Secondary School Teachers, Social Studies, Statistical Data
Jones, Joseph; Southern, Kyle – CNA Corporation, 2011
Federal education policy in recent years has encouraged state and local education agencies to embrace data use and analysis in decision-making, ranging from policy development and implementation to performance evaluation. The capacity of these agencies to make effective and methodologically sound use of collected data for these purposes remains an…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grants, Educational Policy, Federal Programs
Aaronson, Daniel; Barrow, Lisa; Sander, William – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2003
Using unique administrative data on Chicago public high school students and their teachers, we are able to estimate the importance of teachers on student mathematical achievement. We find that teachers are educationally and statistically important. To be sure, sampling variation and other measurement issues can strongly influence estimates of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Achievement