This report is a preliminary exploration of teacher quality in the School District of Philadelphia. It examines three critical junctures in building a work force of quality teachers: teacher preparation, hiring and retention, and equitable distribution of quality teachers. The survey found that schools that serve the highest proportion of…

This document offers statistics regarding enrollment, retention, and success rates for Pensacola Junior College (PJC), Florida. Statistics are divided into categories, which include the following: (1) Enrollments; (2) AA Student Retention; (3) AA Student Success; (4) AS Student Retention; (5) AS Student Success; (6) AA Transfer to State…

This status report documents the postsecondary progress of the 1993-1994 Florida public high school graduating class through the spring term of 2001, or 7 years after high school graduation. The two major outcomes addressed were baccalaureate degree completion and the time/credit hours to baccalaureate degree completion. The study focused on…

This report presents data on participants in Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification (ARTC) in Delaware. During the first 4 years (1997-00), ARTC participation was very broad statewide. The program became increasingly helpful to districts in identifying candidates for hard-to-fill positions. About half of the candidates in the last two cohorts…

In an archival study, the academic outcomes of 653 students with disabilities and 41,357 students without disabilities attending Dawson College (Quebec) were compared over a 12-year period (1990-2002). Students with disabilities were more likely to have been enrolled in a pre-university program, less likely to enroll in a continuing education…

To explore possible sources of the underrepresentation of minority groups in law school, this paper brings together existing data that describe the participation of members of different racial/ethnic groups, especially African Americans and Hispanics, at successive points along the way to employment in the law. It focuses on the process by which…

Researchers and educators have suggested over the past several years that beginning teacher induction and mentoring programs play a significant role in the development and retention of quality teaching professionals. Induction programs provide the critical support that beginning teachers need as they experience the "reality" of the classroom and…

This report contains information on the retention and graduation patterns of full-time undergraduates at Maryland's public four-year colleges and universities from 1981 to 2001. It looks at the number and percentage of students who were retained at their original public four-year campus and those who graduated from any senior public college or…

This reports presents data on college freshman retention and graduation in the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. The four sections of text and data tables examine: trends in retention and graduation rates for the period 1977-98; graduation and retention rates by new freshman characteristics (high school quartile, entry age, race/ethnicity,…

Patterns of attrition at a midwestern research university were examined through telephone interviews of 622 students who had left the institution prematurely and through analysis of institutional data to compare school leavers with those who stayed. This comparison found that school leavers were more likely to have lower college admission test…

This paper proposes an alternative curriculum assessment model to the traditional approach of examining semester course grades as a measure of curricular or instructional change. The alternative model focuses on the academic success of students in the next course in a curricular sequence and was applied with a gateway mathematics course…

This publication, drawn from the national collection of vocational education and training (VET) data in Australia, summarizes data that relate to the 32,315 VET students who identified themselves as indigenous (being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin) in 1996. The publication's six sections are as follows: 1996 highlights; diversity…

This study attempted to track students (n=2,077) who entered the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) in 1986 but had not completed a degree at that institution within eight years of matriculation. The study utilized the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office's statewide database which allowed researchers to determine if, when, and…

In 1995, the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges in Washington forecasted that the number of students transferring from the two-year to the four-year sectors would flatten or even decline during the period from 1994 through 1998, and that the number of transfer students would rise by 50% from 1999 to 2010. This report reconfirms that…

This document from the Miami-Dade Community College Office of Institutional Research (Florida) briefly reports student retention rates at the college for the year 2000. Retention rates for degree-seeking students in 2000 increased from 1998 for all major ethnic categories. The year 2000 total college retention rate was 72.5%. Retention rates by…