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Direct linkCarol A. Mullen; Robert J. Nitowski – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Dropout is a global crisis and an affliction in the United States. This study analyzes graduation rates based on prior academic achievement, attendance, and behavior at an urban American high school in Virginia over 4 years to identify who is (not) graduating and why. Using a correlational, nonexperimental design, four cohorts of graduates were…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement
Download full textDavid Lapp – Research for Action, 2025
This study provides the first descriptive comparison of the characteristics of Pennsylvania school districts by degree of school funding adequacy gaps, as calculated by the Pennsylvania Department of Education in 2024 using the state's legislatively enacted methodology. The 499 school districts are combined in five groupings based on the size…
Descriptors: School Districts, Financial Support, Educational Equity (Finance), Resource Allocation
Guam Department of Education, 2024
The Guam Department of Education ("GDOE") presents this report in compliance with Guam Public Law ("P.L.") 26-26 that specifically requires the Department to report on the following information in the Annual State of Public Education Report ("ASPER"): (1) Demographic information on public school children in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Trends, Public Schools, School Demography
Texas Education Agency, 2021
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
EdTrust-West, 2025
A decade ago, EdTrust-West created the Black Minds Matter campaign to serve as a rallying point for engagement, discussion, and action to dismantle structural racism in California's schools and colleges. Now the Black Minds Matter 2025 report highlights how the state has failed to dedicate adequate leadership and resources to provide the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Equal Education, Racism, Public Education
Texas 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
Utah State Board of Education, 2020
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires the state to calculate a four-year cohort rate. Utah implemented the federally defined cohort graduation rate in 2008. The graduation rate for the 2019 cohort includes all students who started ninth grade in the 2013-14 school year, plus students who transferred into the Utah public education system…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Dropout Rate, Student Characteristics
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
Guam Department of Education, 2022
The Guam Department of Education ("GDOE") presents this report in compliance with Guam Public Law ("P.L.") 26-26 that specifically requires the Department to report on the following information in the Annual State of Public Education Report ("ASPER"): (1) Demographic information on public school children in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
Olga Rodriguez; Niu Gao – Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
This document contains the technical appendices for the report "Dual Enrollment in California: Promoting Equitable Student Access and Success." Appendices include: (1) Data and methods; and (2) Additional tables and figures. [This report was written with research support from Bonnie Brooks and Gabriel Gutierrez Aragon. For the full…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, COVID-19
McFarland, 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
Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
This is the technical appendix for the report, "Does Raising High School Graduation Requirements Improve Student Outcomes?" While high school graduation rates in California have increased in the past decade, nearly 40 percent of California high school graduates do not enroll in college; the disruptive impact of the pandemic has…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Graduation Requirements, Enrollment
Pinder, Patrice Juliet – Online Submission, 2020
States are establishing high stakes assessments to serve as measurement tools of students' academic abilities. This study essentially compares Maryland's and Florida's mathematics and science assessments for similarities and differences. Building from 5-10 years of student level quantitative data (secondary data) and critical analyses of the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, State Standards, High Stakes Tests
Adams, Caralee J.; Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2013
America's high school graduation rate has notably improved, according to figures released last week by the National Center for Education Statistics. The "averaged freshman graduation rate" rose to 78.2 percent of public school students receiving a diploma in 2010, up from 75.5 percent the year before. In 2006, the rate was 73.4 percent, and in…
Descriptors: Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Gender Differences
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
