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Schneider, Barbara – Educational Researcher, 2015
The College Ambition Program (CAP) is designed to encourage low-income and minority students to enroll in college. The following analysis presents updated results from my AERA presidential talk in 2014. Results indicate that CAP, which is a schoolwide intervention, increased college attendance for low-income and minority students in seven…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students, College Preparation
DePaoli, Jennifer L.; Balfanz, Robert; Bridgeland, John – Civic Enterprises, 2016
The nation has achieved an 82.3 percent high school graduation rate--a record high. Graduation rates rose for all student subgroups, and the number of low-graduation-rate high schools and students enrolled in them dropped again, indicating that progress has had far-reaching benefits for all students. This report is the first to analyze 2014…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Data Analysis, Statistical Data
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Mackey, Bonnie; Mackey, Wade C. – Education, 2012
The role of the on-going social father in America has received increased attention in the last quarter century. In some quarters, the U.S. father has been viewed as supernumerary or optional. In other quarters, the U.S. father has been perceived to be essential to the optimum development of his children. Still other factions have been intermediate…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Fathers, Parent Role, Parent Influence
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
Sparked by the current economic situation in the U.S., policymakers have begun to shift their concern from solely concentrating on the preparation of students for college to preparing them for the workforce as well. Thus, it is time for CTE to understand its impact on students' long-term trajectories. The purpose of this study was to predict…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Vocational Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Education Work Relationship
Pebdani, Roxanna Nasseri – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Youth with disabilities face significant barriers in achieving positive post-high school outcomes, particularly when transitioning out of high school and entering the workforce, a problem that has been documented and studied by many researchers. The impact of previous work experience has long been viewed as related to positive outcomes when youth…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Job Layoff, Barriers, Transitional Programs
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2004
In October 2003, NCES asked the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI) to convene a task force of measurement and policy experts to examine current high school graduation, completion, and dropout indicators (GCD) and recommend improvements in the measures. The Task Force was asked…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, High School Graduates
Nolfi, George J.; And Others – 1978
The growing complexity of policy decisions in such areas as education and manpower necessitates increased research, which in turn requires an adequate data base and adequate methodology. Recognition that the variables affecting the vocational and educational choices of high school graduates are interrelated and require examination from several…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Choice, College Choice, Data Analysis
Connecticut Department of Higher Education (NJ1), 2004
Total enrollment at Connecticut's 46 colleges and universities reached an all-time record of 170,624 in fall 2003. A November report titled, "Fall 2003 College and University Headcounts in Connecticut," analyzed headcount enrollment by status, level, institution and sector. This broader report discusses general trends in headcount…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Annual Reports, Enrollment Trends, College Freshmen
Levinsohn, Jay; And Others – 1978
This Users Manual is the supporting documentation for the Public Use Data File from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS). The data file contains certain merged data from the base year (1972), and first, second, and third follow-up NLS surveys for 22,652 cases. This volume contains only appendices K through Q, as…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Databases, Followup Studies
Bailey, J. P., Jr. – 1976
The status of the high school class of 1972, as it was two years after graduation in October 1974, is described in terms of questionnaire survey responses. Students from 1,153 high schools participated and 20,872 students responded to the questionnaire out of the total group of 23,451. The development, administration, and reliability of the survey…
Descriptors: Attendance, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases