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Garcia, Brian; Holland, Chester; Vignola, Eric; Sarfo, Akisha Osei; Hart, Ray – Council of the Great City Schools, 2022
Over the years, the nation's large urban school districts have consistently learned from the progress of their peer districts across the country. Great City School districts that have embraced the challenge of educating America's urban children have recognized the value of benchmarking their performance and growth against the progress of others.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Indicators, School Districts, Urban Education
Iowa Department of Education, 2023
The 2023 edition of the Annual Condition of Education Report (COE) marks the 34th edition of the report. For over 30 years, the Department has published the COE in order to provide education stakeholders critical data about the status of Iowa's education system. The 2023 COE includes a wide variety of content including information about Iowa's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Enrollment
Duke, Daniel L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Have efforts to improve schools neglected high achievers? A growing chorus of critics is voicing concern for the achievement gap, but not the gap between well-to-do and poor students, or white and non-white students. The gap that most worries them is the one between U.S. students and students in other industrialized nations. Among the 34 nations…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations
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Dalton, Ben; Ingels, Steven J.; Fritch, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This First Look introduces new data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, collected in 2013 when most sample members were recent high school graduates, and in 2014 from the high school transcripts of students who were freshmen in 2009. The analyses examine students' high school completion status; plans for postsecondary enrollment and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Graduation Rate, High School Graduates
Rochford, Joseph A.; O'Neill, Adrienne; Gelb, Adele; Ross, Kimberly J. – Stark Education Partnership, 2011
In 2002, the Stark County Preschool through College (P-16) Compact set the goal of achieving an 80% college going rate. Such a goal seemed both audacious and daunting for a community where in 2001 only 17.9% of the adults held a Bachelor's Degree, or higher, and where only 49% of all high school graduates went directly to college. Nine years have…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), High Schools, Graduation Rate, Disadvantaged Youth
Buckley, Pamela; Muraskin, Lana – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2009
Denver Public Schools (DPS), the Denver Scholarship Foundation, The Piton Foundation, and the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education undertook a study to learn how DPS graduates perform in college. The report describes who enrolls in college, and who persists and earns a college certificate or degree. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Public Schools, Advanced Placement, Community Colleges