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Download full textMcLaughlin, Michael J. – 1990
There is no need for costly new state or federal dropout prevention programs because 87.1 percent of youth now complete a high school education by age 24, nearly achieving President George Bush's goal of a 90 percent graduation rate by the year 2000. Calculations of high national and urban dropout rates based on the number of students who do not…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Hanushek, Eric A.; Lavy, Victor – 1994
This paper demonstrates the analytical importance of employing output-based measures of school quality. The empirical analysis employs data collected in a longitudinal survey of primary school students in Egypt during 2 academic years, 1978-79 and 1979-80. School quality and grade completion are shown to be directly linked, leading to very…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Developing Nations, Dropout Rate
West Virginia Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education, Huntington. – 1984
This guide is intended to provide teachers and administrators, especially in West Virginia, with information about high school dropouts, their characteristics, and ways to retain potential dropouts in high school. A pretest and answer key precede the text of the report. The first section presents an overview of the dropout problem and its…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Natriello, Gary, Ed. – 1986
This book collects articles that examine the patterns of dropping out evident among American youth, and the policies developed and implemented to reduce the incidence of dropping out. The following chapters (and their authors) are included: (1) Introduction (G. Natriello); (2) Can We Help Dropouts? Thinking about the Undoable (D. Mann); (3) Large…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Lieblong, Burl W.; McLendon, Don
A project was designed to identify student needs contributing to high vocational technical school dropout rates and to develop strategies for effective rate reduction. Project staff objectives were to (1) identify problems impeding potential dropouts from training success, (2) alleviate potential dropouts' critical needs, (3) implement meaningful…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Garber, Herbert; Schell, Robert E. – 1977
Attrition rates at the State University of New York at Oswego are investigated in this paper. In 1975-76 51 percent of the students who entered as freshmen failed to graduate. The major objective of the study was to isolate and describe the differences that exist in the rates and modes of attrition among students who entered the college as…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
