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Download full textPhelps, Richard P. – Educational Horizons, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has measured various types of high school graduation, completion, and dropout rates for decades. In 2006, NCES was directed by senior managers in the Education Department to reduce use of its standard graduation and completion rate measures and instead promote the…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Semantics, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
