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Direct linkKemple, James J. – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2015
In the first decade of the 21st century, the New York City (NYC) Department of Education implemented a set of large-scale and much debated high school reforms, which included closing large, low-performing schools, opening new small schools, and extending high school choice to students throughout the district. The school closure process was the…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Closing, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Kemple, James J. – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2015
In the first decade of the 21st century, the New York City (NYC) Department of Education implemented a set of large-scale and much debated high school reforms, which included closing large, low-performing schools, opening new small schools, and extending high school choice to students throughout the district. The school closure process was the…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Closing, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Kemple, James J. – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2015
In the first decade of the 21st century, the New York City (NYC) Department of Education implemented a set of large-scale and much debated high school reforms, which included closing large, low-performing schools, opening new small schools, and extending high school choice to students throughout the district. The school closure process was the…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Closing, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedSmith, Theodore Scott; Manuel, Nancy; Stokes, Billy R. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study compared differences in diploma and graduation dropout rates among students with and without disabilities, analyzed differences in various graduation-types by disabilities, and offered recommendations to improve graduation rates through evidence-based practices. The geographic catchment area of this study was limited to twelve Southern…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evidence, Outcomes of Education, Geographic Regions
Download full textAlabama Department of Education, 2012
Public education in Alabama is moving in the right direction and is poised to be a national model for the college and career readiness of its students. Through some of the most challenging financial circumstances, public education in Alabama has continued to show great promise in many areas, including reading, math, and science. The success of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, State Surveys, Attendance
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
Conner, Evguenia; McKee, Jan – Principal Leadership, 2008
This article describes an action research at an alternative high school which explores drop-out prevention strategies with first-year students. Student retention is extremely challenging for alternative schools. Because their mission is to provide a second chance to students who could not succeed in a regular setting, those schools regularly must…
Descriptors: Action Research, Prevention, Academic Persistence, Statistical Data
McDermott, Marie; Lichtenstein, Pauline – 1974
This report presents retention rates of the 1964 through 1969 Hofstra freshman classes 5 years after entry. Data indicates: (1) Hofstra's persistence rate for the 1966 freshmen was comparable to the national retention rate. (2) There has been a downward trend in Hofstra's persistence rate as demonstrated by the figures for the 1964 throught 1969…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Attendance, College Freshmen
DONEHOWER, GRACE M. – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS 1963-65 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE IF RELATIONSHIPS EXISTED BETWEEN THE DEGREE OF SUCCESS IN COLLEGE LEVEL COURSES AND SUCH CORRESPONDENCE STUDENT VARIABLES AS AGE, SEX, ACHIEVEMENT, COMPLETION, WITHDRAWAL, REASON FOR ENROLLING, DISTANCE FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE CENTER, PREVIOUS EDUCATION, AND THE TIME ELAPSED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Correspondence Study, Distance
Iowa Department of Education, 2011
The Annual Condition of Education Report provides a wide range of state-level data, including shifts in student populations and demographics, teacher salaries and characteristics, student achievement results, and school financial information. A few examples of the categories presented in this 22nd edition report include: (1) Enrollment; (2) Early…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Annual Reports, State Surveys
Birch, D. W.; And Others – 1974
The teaching function is examined to determine an improved budgetary planning and control system as well as comparisons across universities and polytechnics. The inputs, outcomes and processes of the teaching function are identified and defined, with available data collected and measured with reference to those defined variables and parameters.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conference Reports, Data Processing, Dropout Rate
Lipsitz, Joan Scheff – 1983
This testimony, prepared for presentation to the Crisis Intervention Task Force of the House Select Committee on Children Youth, and Families, begins with an overview of statistics on education, employment, and marriage among adolescents. Subsequently, it reviews data on indicators of youth crises: pregnancy, sexuality, substance abuse, smoking,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, After School Programs, Birth Rate
National Center for Education Statistics (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This bulletin provides information on two educational disadvantages of language-minority persons in the United States based on an analysis of data from the nationwide Survey of Income and Education (SIE), conducted in the spring of 1976 by the Bureau of the Census. Language-minority persons were found to be educationally disadvantaged on two key…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Bilingual Students, Dropout Rate
Grant, W. Vance; Lind, C. George – 1974
The 12th in a series of annual publications, this document provides an abstract of statistical information covering American education from kindergarten through graduate school. Subjects on which statistics are provided include the number of schools and colleges; and information on enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Degrees (Academic), Dropout Rate
Simon, Kenneth A.; Grant, W. Vance – 1973
The 11th in a series of annual publications, this document provides an abstract of statistical information covering American education from kindergarten through graduate school. Subjects on which statistics are provided include the number of schools and colleges; and information on enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Degrees (Academic), Dropout Rate, Educational Facilities
