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Matlock, Ki; Song, Joon Jin; Goering, Christian Z. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2014
This study investigated the influences of district-related variables on a district's academic performance. Arkansas augmented benchmark examination scores were used to measure a district's scholastic achievement. Spatial analysis fit each district's performance to its geographical location; spatial autocorrelation measured the amount of influence…
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, Benchmarking, Scores
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Evan, Aimee J.; Burden, Frances F.; Gheen, Margaret H.; Smerdon, Becky A. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2013
Career academies have been effective in reducing the high school dropout rates and increasing academic course taking and course credit accumulation among students (Kemple & Willner, 2008; Kemple & Snipes, 2000). However, not all students have access to career academy programs as they are not universally implemented across the state of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Academies, Access to Education, Geographic Location
Morrison, Peter A. – 1977
The paper highlights economic and social problems that current population trends in New York State are likely to create. Major features of population change in New York are: (1) transition from steady growth to near stability; (2) an end to metropolitan growth statewide and the onset of decline in four of the state's ten Standard Metropolitan…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Demography, Enrollment, Enrollment Influences