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Download full textAustin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1987
As adolescents enter high school in the ninth grade, they experience a transition unlike any previous school experience, and it exacts its toll from unprepared, unmotivated, or unwary students. An examination of achievement test averages across grades 1 through 12 for students in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Austin, Texas…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance, Discipline Problems, Dropouts
Paredes, Vicente – 1991
The transition to high school is a crucial time in a student's academic career. This summary is presented as a caution to students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the public to warn of some of the hazards of the transition year (grade nine). In 1989-90, ninth-graders in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District had the lowest…
Descriptors: Attendance, Discipline Problems, Dropout Rate, Enrollment
