This report provides state summary tables and district reports of graduation rates, dropout rates, and expulsion rates in Colorado. The graduation rate is a cumulative or longitudinal rate that calculates the number of students who actually graduate as a percent of those who were in membership and could have graduated. The dropout rate is an…

The information in this document is a summary of school-level data on attendance submitted by each Maryland public school system. Since 1991 the overall percent average daily attendance has risen slightly from 92.6% in 1992 to 93.4% in 1996 and 1997. The rate of increase is mirrored at elementary and secondary school levels. The percent attendance…

The principal investigators of this study were asked by a midwestern urban high school to assist in the analysis of data collected on students who had dropped out of high school. The data were to be reviewed to determine the cause of the high school's dropout rate. Variables investigated included attendance, grade point average, fourth grade…

At a small liberal arts college, interviews were conducted with 24 current employees who had graduated from the college. The study was intended to be a source of insight into why these individuals enrolled at the school and why they stayed at the college. An additional focus was on how student affairs and academic affairs staff collaborated on…

This report updates research on first-time in college freshmen (cohort) attrition at Nova Southeastern University. The purpose was to determine the extent of attrition among these students and to see if there was a profile of students more likely to leave. After one semester, 13% (36 of 280 first time in college students) in fall 1999 dropped out.…

Article describes a procedure to protect student rights and improve the process of identifying students' social, emotional, or learning problems. (Editor)

This study compared the self concept and need variables of disadvantaged students: subjects from a continuation school (drop-outs) with 80 subjects (matched for sex, race, and age) who were attending a large inner-city high school. Data indicate that on most of the self concept and need variables there were significant differences between groups.…

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss a detailed analysis of the basic data collected by the Select Committee on Teacher Education together with supplementary data contained in the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education (A. T. C. D. E.) Handbook for 1969. (Author/RK)

Language classes are one of the most popular offerings in adult education, yet the dropout rate is high. An instructor must determine what newly enrolled students want from his classes in order that he can effectively employ techniques such as pair work for conversation and workshops. (KP)

Describes a dropout prevention program in which students gain vocational technical experience by renovating old buildings to be used as modern living quarters for disadvantaged families. (JF)

Article presented another side of the problem of student dropouts. (RK)

The findings of this study failed to support the hypothesis that need achievement has an appreciable effect on continuation in college, even when the objective probability of success is controlled. (Author/KM)

A follow-up survey of a group of students who had attended occupations schools. (JA)

Presidential address, annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 26, 1972. (FF)