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DeCarlas O'Neal-Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The high school (HS) graduation rate of students with disabilities who have individual education programs (IEP) is historically low compared with their non-disabled peers. The problem was that a statewide initiative to improve the standard HS diploma graduation rate of students with disabilities, the April Dunn Act (the Act), was perceived as…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Students, Educational Attainment, Students with Disabilities
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Anthony C. Ogden; Hsiu-Zu Ho; Yeana W. Lam; Angela D. Bell; Rachana Bhatt; Leslie Hodges; Coryn Shiflet; Donald Rubin – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This study utilized the large-scale, multi-institutional CASSIE dataset to examine the impact of education abroad participation on academic outcomes for first-generation college students. Using robust multivariate matching methodology that effectively minimized self-selection bias, results showed the magnitude of benefit offered by studying abroad…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, First Generation College Students, Outcomes of Education, Graduation Rate
Jessica Jolene White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students enter into higher education institutions to pursue degrees in STEM fields with varying levels of academic preparedness, and many students will never finish a college degree. To address academic underpreparedness, many institutions have developed remedial coursework to increase student persistence and graduation rates with varying…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Remedial Instruction, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
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Wendy J. Dahl; Katrina R. Alford; Daniela Rivero-Mendoza; Melissa L. Moreno; Sruthy R. Emmanuel; Gabrielle L. Gorwitz – NACTA Journal, 2024
Although course choice may shape students' academic futures, with some new courses, few students may register, resulting in course cancellation, lost student opportunities, and wasted faculty effort. This study aimed to explore the attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioral control factors influencing students' decisions to enroll in a new…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, Course Selection (Students), Enrollment
Joyce H. Conyers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the state of South Carolina, African American students make up 34% of the student population but 59% of students receive out-of-school suspension. It was assumed by prior research statistics that the disproportionality of discipline produces lower academic achievement for African American students. An examination of the disproportionality of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Disproportionate Representation, Racial Differences, White Students
Sofoklis Goulas – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to the education sector, and its ramifications have extended far beyond the extended closure of many American schools. Among other things, they include a substantial enrollment decline in a non-trivial number of public schools across the United States, some of which were already experiencing…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Public Schools, School Closing
Jodi Frager – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the landscape of modern education, the role of a superintendent has become increasingly complex, marked by demands for higher student achievement and round-the-clock communication. This complexity, underscored by technological advancements and evolving accountability measures, underscores the criticality of strategic planning for school…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Public Schools, Superintendents, School Districts
Nancy Severe-Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There was a recognized high rate of students enrolled in technology programs who did not graduate college. Scholars who had studied predictors of college completion surmised there were several behavioral traits associated with a student achieving their college objectives through graduation; one of those factors was persistence. Persistence, the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Academic Persistence, Majors (Students), Community College Students
Tawanna S. Robertson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mentoring is widely recognized as an effective approach to addressing educational needs in U.S. schools, emphasizing the importance of strong, long-term mentor-mentee relationships (Karaferye, 2018; Wood & Mayo-Wilson, 2012). These relationships can provide crucial support for youth facing social, emotional, and financial challenges (Kuperminc…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Mentors, Urban Schools
Anthony Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation was a multiple case study research project designed to identify whether the "Men of Merit Program" (MOMP) met its goal of increasing persistence, retention, and graduation rates of African American male students at a Western New York Community College. Earlier statistics reported that other American colleges had shown a…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Evaluation, African American Students, Males
Gonzalez Hernandez, Vanessa – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2023
M-DCPS had 20,833 graduates in the 2021-2022 academic year as of June 2022. Most students, 89%, achieved a standard diploma (24 credits). Some students chose an alternative curriculum where 857 (4%) achieved an Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) diploma and 454 (2%) achieved an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma. An…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High School Graduates, Graduation Requirements, Advanced Placement Programs
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Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Shafenberg, Kari – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
An increasing percentage of students entering postsecondary institutions are working at least part-time and balancing multiple identities, responsibilities, and demands on their time and resources. As student demographics change, postsecondary institutions must rise to meet these students where they are. Two effective ways to do that include…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Credits, Prior Learning, Postsecondary Education
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Temoso, Omphile; Myeki, Lindikaya W. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Recent high dropout and low graduation rates in the South African higher education institutions as well as government funding cuts and the economic uncertainty due to COVID-19 pandemic have heightened the urgency for the higher education sector to improve its productivity. However, empirical evidence on the productivity growth of the sector…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Productivity, Disadvantaged Schools
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Jones, Chris; Wang, Yuan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
To be competitive, universities across the world are embedding an international perspective into every layer of an institution's operational structure. For higher education (HE) providers that offer sandwich degrees (4-year undergraduate courses with a compulsory placement after the second year), this allows students to choose a range of options.…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Placement, Job Placement, Labor Market
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Mary McDonald – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
This study is a follow-up to one on the pass rates of basic writers in a large, urban Midwestern university. Students who came for eight or more mandatory writing center tutorials for their basic writing course passed at a rate of 90% or higher each semester from 2013-2016. The current study examined their graduation rates. These students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
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