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Chappell, Shanan L.; O'Connor, Patrick; Withington, Cairen; Stegelin, Dolores A. – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, 2015
Almost from the start of the public schools system in America, students have been leaving school without high school diplomas. However, the dropout issue did not rise to the level of significance it has today until the early 1980s, when social pressures, along with business leaders, leveraged their influence on educators to address the dropout…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students, Business
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. – 2002
This guide provides some basic statistical techniques that may be used in writing grant proposals, analyzing reports, and evaluating programs. Examples focus on rural Pennsylvania. The first section, Understanding Data, discusses definitions, codes, and data limitations. Definitions of Census Bureau geographic, demographic, housing, and…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Coding, Data Analysis, Data Conversion