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Download full textNeha Nanda; Amani Talwar; Stephanie Cronen; Sasha Lotas; Jessica Stockham – American Institutes for Research, 2025
Adult education programs play a pivotal role in closing skills gaps, strengthening the workforce, and bolstering the U.S. economy. Persistence in this type of programming can influence educational and long-term employment outcomes. At the same time, persistence itself can be influenced by a multitude of individual and contextual factors. Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Education, Educational Attainment, Academic Persistence
Maria Camila Rivera Zabarain – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2024
The California Department of Education (CDE) identifies more than 970 public alternative schools across the state. Most of these are high schools designed to meet the needs of credit-deficient and other youth, over age 16 who are vulnerable to dropping out of school before completing minimum requirements for a diploma or completion certificate.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High Schools, Nontraditional Students, Enrollment Trends
Direct linkTexas Education Agency, 2023
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Texas Education Agency, 2022
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Texas Education Agency, 2020
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Texas Education Agency, 2019
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Peer reviewedMcFarland, Joel; Cui, Jiashan; Holmes, Juliet; Wang, Xiaolei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The report draws on a wide array of surveys and administrative datasets to present statistics on high school dropout and completion rates at the state and national levels. The report includes estimates of the percentage of students who drop out in a given 12-month period (event dropout rates), the percentage of young people in a specified age…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, High School Students
Texas Education Agency, 2018
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Stark, Patrick; Noel, Amber M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates in 2012, provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last four decades (1972-2012), and examines the characteristics of high school…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Student Characteristics
McFarland, Joel; Cui, Jiashan; Rathbun, Amy; Holmes, Juliet – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
The report draws on a wide array of surveys and administrative datasets to present statistics on high school dropout and completion rates at the state and national levels. The report includes estimates of the percentage of students who drop out in a given 12-month period (event dropout rates), the percentage of young people in a specified age…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, High School Students, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Houston Independent School District, 2019
The State Compensatory Education (SCE) program is designed to reduce dropout rates and increase academic performance of students identified as being at-risk of dropping out of school. For this year's evaluation of SCE, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) served as the state assessment measures for grades 3 through 8 and…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, School Districts
Houston Independent School District, 2018
The State Compensatory Education (SCE) program is designed to reduce dropout rates and increase academic performance of students identified as being at-risk of dropping out of school. SCE operates as a funding source to supplement instructional services and offer academic support to students who meet the SCE at-risk criteria established by the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, School Districts
Miller, Sheridan – New England Board of Higher Education, 2021
On Dec. 21, 2020, Congress lifted the 26-year ban on federal student aid--specifically, the Pell grant--for those who are incarcerated. The decision came after a long push for prison reforms that included calls for a greater emphasis on rehabilitation, reducing prison populations, and making prison sentences less harsh. New England has long been a…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Fennoy, Donald E., II.; Oswald, Keith; Sheffield, Glenda; Howard, Mark – School District of Palm Beach County, 2021
On January 7, 2020, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released high school graduation rates for the State of Florida and the School District of Palm Beach County (District). It should be noted that due to COVID-19, assessment requirements for graduation were waived for FY20 seniors who had yet to meet them. This fact should be kept in…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Graduation Rate, Minority Group Students
Florida Department of Education, 2015
The principal purpose of the report for the "Florida School District Adult and Technical Centers" is to provide timely, accurate, and comparative information about the Florida School District Adult and Technical Centers System. This report is intended for use by people who are interested in data relevant to education in the School…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Technical Education, School Districts, General Education
