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Long, Michael – Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 2009
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has endorsed a "Closing the Gap" agenda designed to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians. The agenda is distilled in a series of targets, one of which is the goal of halving the gap for Indigenous students in Year 12 attainment or equivalent (Certificate II or above) attainment rates by…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, School Holding Power, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment
Dorn, Sherman – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
A new report published by the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions is a minor variant on six similar reports published by the Friedman Foundation over the past three years. The new report repeats some of the errors in the previous reports, and it follows a parallel structure, arguing that the costs of dropping out are dramatic for the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
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Cunningham, Alisa F.; Milam, John – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
This report examines the feasibility of implementing a student unit record system to replace the student-related components that currently are based on aggregate institution-level data collected as part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The feasibility study was initiated by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Student Records, Evaluation Methods, Technology Integration