Tag » graduation

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  What Matters for Staying On-Track and Graduating in Chicago Public Schools: A Focus on Students with Disabilities

  1/7/09 - Julia Gwynne, Joy Lesnick, Holly M. Hart, Elaine M. Allensworth

  Graduating from high school has become a minimum requirement for success in terms of employment, salary, and future career choices. However, nearly one-third of students nationwide do not graduate from high school, and the dropout rate is even higher for minority students. Although graduation rates have increased over time, in CPS almost half of all students fail to graduate. Furthermore, students who receive special education services graduate at levels below their non-disabled peers. In...

• Bridging the gap between academics & athletics

  1/1/98 - Jones, Dianne C.

  A study at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater examined the validity of the stereotypes that student athletes were inferior students, selected easier majors, and did not graduate. A review of grade point averages proved that the student athletes at the university were not academically inferior to the general student population. A tabulation of majors showed that student athletes did not select perceived "easier" majors than the general student body. Furthermore, an analysis of graduation...

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  High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2007

  1/25/09 - Emily Forrest Cataldi, Jennifer Laird, Angelina KewalRamani, Chris Chapman

  This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates that began in 1988. The report includes discussions of many rates used to study how students complete or fail to complete high school. It presents estimates of rates for 2007 and provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three and a half decades (1972-2007) along with more recent estimates of on-time graduation...

• High-Stakes Testing: Does the California High School Exit Exam Measure Up?

  1/1/05 - Callet, Valerie J.

  In 2002, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act. In addition to providing additional funding for schools and encouraging local autonomy, the new law focuses on accountability in an attempt to close the achievement gap for all students, leaving no child behind. Perhaps the most striking manifestation of Bush's new law is the amplified attention on high-stakes testing as a means to demonstrate accountability. The California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) is California's...

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  Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation

  1/18/09 - The National Women’s Law Center,, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund,

  Just as Latinas all over the country begin or return to high schools classrooms all over the country, this report examines a stark reality: many of them – as much as 41% -- will not graduate in four years. Through conversations with Latinas themselves, this report explores the factors behind the dropout crisis, with recommendations on actions needed to improve graduation rates and produce college-ready young women.

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  Measuring What Matters: A Stronger Accountability Model for Teacher Education

  1/2/10 - Crowe, Edward

  The redesigned accountability system proposed in this paper is an effort to direct regulatory oversight to things that matter: whether or not K-12 students are learning, how well teachers have developed the classroom teaching skills to be effective with their students, a graduate’s commitment to teaching as a professional career, feedback from graduates and employers, and high-quality tests of teacher knowledge and skills that are tied to classroom teaching performance and K-12 student...

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  Obstacles to opportunity: Alexandria, Virginia students speak out

  1/10/09 - Tony Samara

  The student group Alexandria United Teens (a project of Tenants and Workers United), Advancement Project, and Professor Tony Roshan Samara of George Mason University wrote Obstacles to Opportunity: Alexandria, Virginia Students Speak Out. The report reveals an unsettling conclusion: Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) has effectively created a two–track school system — one for a small number of predominantly White students who are actively prepared from an early age for college and...

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  Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07

  1/23/09 - Robert Stillwell

  "This First Look report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools during the 2006-07 school year. State education agencies (SEAs) provided the data to the Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal survey."

• The Educational Status of African American Males in the 21st Century

  1/1/07 - Garibaldi, Antoine M.

  This article assesses the educational attainment of African American males between the 1990s and early 2000s. Beginning with a summary of a 1987-88 study conducted by the author on African American males in the New Orleans Public Schools, national data are provided on the high school graduation rates of African American males and females, as well as trends in their enrollment and degree completion at the undergraduate, graduate and first-professional levels. The data show a growing...

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  The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools

  1/28/09 - Alliance for Excellent Education,

  If the high school students who dropped out of the Class of 2009 had graduated, the nation’s economy would have benefited from nearly $335 billion in additional income over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new issue brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education. According to the brief, The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools, more than seven thousand students become dropouts every school day. Annually, that adds up to almost...

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  Transitioning out of high school: A quick stats fact sheet

  1/3/09 - Kline, C., Williams, E.

  This fact sheet provides statistics describing the current status of high school graduates' readiness for life after high school. It highlights some of the challenges and opportunities facing high school students after graduation as well as some of the consequences and implications for America’s underprepared graduates.

• "They might need a little extra hand, you know": Latino students in at-risk programs

  1/1/08 - Fairbrother, Anne

  This is a qualitative study in a school district in a large city in the Southwest in response to the research question, "What are staff and student expectations for, and assessment of, three 'at-risk' programs in this large school district?" Four thematic findings from observations and interviews in four classes in two high school alternative programs and one alternative high school over one semester are reported, concerning (a) commitment to the programs, (b) labeling of students, (c...

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  A developmental perspective on college & workplace readiness

  1/3/09 - Lippman, L., Atienza, A., Rivers, A., Keith, J.

  This report provides a developmental perspective on what competencies young people need to be ready for college, the workplace, and the transition to adulthood. National hand-wringing about the lack of preparedness of high school graduates for college and the workplace has catalyzed researchers, educators, and policymakers to define the skills and competencies students need in order to be successful. These prescriptions tend to focus either on college readiness or on workplace readiness. At...

• Accountability Standards, and the Growing Achievement Gap: Lessons from the Past Half-Century

  1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.

  The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research...

• Accountability, Standards, and the Growing Achievement Gap: Lessons from the Past Half-Century

  1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.

  The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research...

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  Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families

  1/14/09 - Wyner, J., Bridgeland, J., Diulio, J.

  This report discusses new and original research on this extraordinary population of students. Our findings come from three federal databases that during the past 20 years have tracked students in elementary and high school, college, and graduate school. The following principal findings about high-achieving lower-income students are important for policymakers, educators, business leaders, the media, and civic leaders to understand and explore as schools, communities, states, and the nation...