The context for this paper relates to the policy and practice implications of efforts to achieve social justice for Scotland's 12,000 children and young people in the care of local government authorities. The paper is located within a growing evidence base of the educational experience of young people in care and leaving care. The data on…

Disciplinary alternative schools have a reputation as gateways to the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The authors conducted an evaluation of an intervention (Strategies for Success) designed to divert seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade alternative school students from this gateway. They used propensity score matching and a multivariate…

This study examines three areas of concern to school districts: a) the policies of supplemental remuneration for teachers currently maintained by the school districts, b) the extent of teacher absenteeism in the districts, and c) the possibility of relationships between policies for supplemental remuneration and teacher absenteeism. Five study…

In Merida, as in the United States, school choice and school characteristics appear to be based upon characteristics other than quality. Although when asked, parents and students seemed to think they were making the choice for academic reasons. (Author/AM)

Discusses the need to evaluate and revise student attendance procedures. Includes a list of symptoms to look for to identify problem attendance areas. (MD)

High school attendance rates are affected by the size of the school, the percentage of required courses offered as phase electives, and the population density of the community. (IRT)

Available data permit identification of problem areas, but are not sufficient to determine causes of high or low rates of unscheduled absence. (Editor)

Various elements of absenteeism are presented: costs to the employer, company policies that affect absenteeism, when absenteeism is high, and how the training officer can improve the situation (positive discipline, post-absence interview, and other strategies). (CT)

Music enrollments at the secondary level have held steady in schools with seven or more periods in the school day but have dropped off in schools with six or fewer periods. Cites how some schools have found ways to meet the challenge of scheduling music classes. (MLF)

Professors of Educational Administration spend an inordinate amount of time tracking student attendance and calculating absences into final grades. A study of student attendance in one educational administration program at a medium-sized public institution of higher education in California concluded that: (1) negative and positive grade-related…

Father Bruce Wellems didn't know the dropout statistics when he came to Back of the Yards in 1990 to serve as a parish priest. Born and raised in New Mexico, Wellems initially had only vague notions of what an inner-city ministry might look like and little commitment to the neighborhood's struggling youth. But after some prodding from a local park…

This "Report Card to the Public" is published in accordance with Alaska Statute 14.03.120 for the school year 2012-2013. Under state law, each school district is required to report information about its plans and performance to its community. This report includes a statewide summary of performance results. Public knowledge of the school…

Bangladesh has made great improvements in the scale and quality of access to education in recent years and gender equality has almost been achieved in primary education (World Bank, 2008). Evidence from CREATE's nationwide community and school survey (ComSS) confirms results from other research (such as Al-Samarrai, 2009) which suggests that…

This paper considers whether high schools in competitive environments use grade inflation to attract and retain families, perhaps in addition to more constructive responses. Two measures of grade inflation are used: the cutoffs used by each school to assign a letter grade to a percent score and high school grade point average after controlling for…