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Download full textChapman, Anne; Keyes, Maddie; Schmidt, Jeff – Public Policy Forum, 2017
Our 32nd annual report analyzing data from southeast Wisconsin's public school districts finds progress on some college readiness indicators and largely positive showings on district report cards. Those results are offset, however, by discouraging results on standardized tests and continued substantial achievement gaps between students of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Demography, Academic Achievement, Educational Finance
Direct linkHeffernan, Karen – Principal Leadership, 2010
Students who are in foster care need principals who are informed about policy, aware of their needs, and willing to be advocates for them. Multiple school placements often result in significant gaps in the education of students in foster care. If they also have disabilities, they may lose special programs and services when they change placements.…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Graduation Rate, Foster Care, Socioeconomic Status
Peer reviewedEdyburn, Dave – New Directions for Higher Education, 2011
Whereas campus administrators are faced with relentless demands to acquire new technologies as a means of keeping up with all that the marketplace has to offer, it is necessary to align technology acquisition with institutional goals and activities for enhancing retention, reducing time to degree completion, and raising graduation rates. Universal…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Educational Benefits, Academic Achievement, Disabilities
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2012
This "Report Card to the Public" is published in accordance with Alaska Statute 14.03.120 for the school year 2011-2012. 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. It reports the status of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, School Districts, Academic Achievement
Lehr, Camilla A.; Johnson, David R.; Bremer, Christine D.; Cosio, Anna; Thompson, Megan – National Center on Secondary Education and Transition, University of Minnesota (NCSET), 2004
This manual provides a synthesis of research-based dropout prevention and intervention and offers examples of interventions that show evidence of effectiveness. This has proven to be a difficult task because the intervention research on dropout and school completion that can be used to inform practice is incomplete (Dynarski & Gleason, 2002;…
Descriptors: Intervention, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
Smith, Sandra Covington; Bost, Loujeania Williams – National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities, 2008
State Education Agencies (SEAs) lead the charge for effective change, impact, and sustainability in the adoption and implementation of programs and practices that promote school completion. Steps taken by state and local education agencies to decrease dropout include (a) collection, analysis, and public reporting of "dropout" rates and related…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Districts, State Departments of Education, At Risk Students
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This August 6, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Graduate Education Is a Seamless Web of Learning and Work, Not Class…
Descriptors: Labor Relations, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Teaching Assistants
