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Author(s):National High School Center
Title:State approaches to more reliable and uniform dropout and graduation data
Source:http://www.betterhighschools.org/docs/NHSC_Grad...
Date:2007
Organization:National High School Center
Short Description:A close review of accurate dropout and graduation patterns is essential for directing resources and developing effective strategies to ensure more students stay in high school.
Annotation:A close review of accurate dropout and graduation patterns is essential for directing resources and developing effective strategies to ensure more students stay in high school. This report suggests states must use a uniform and reliable method for calculating graduation rates as well as dropout rates. The need for statewide longitudinal data systems, providing student-level data is also emphasized.
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No time to delay: Delivering the statewide data systems California's students deserve
Charting the path from engagement to achievement: A report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Understanding costs of credit-based transition programs in Indiana
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
College for Every Student (CFES): Assessment of student outcomes 2007-08
What are examples of state legislation focused on high school dropout prevention?
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
15 Effective strategies for dropout prevention
Better late than never? Examining late high school graduates
Why students drop out of school: A review of 25 years of research
California high schools that beat the odds in high school graduation
End-of-course exams: A growing trend in high school-level assessments
Mapping the road to college: First generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support
The high school senior class of 2003-04: Steps toward postsecondary enrollment
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
The linked learning approach: Building the capacity of teachers to prepare students for college and careers
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Six pillars of effective dropout prevention and recovery: An assessment of current state policy and how to improve it
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Reinventing alternative education: State policy profiles
2010 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
The condition of college and career readiness 2010
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
The state of state standards - and the Common Core - in 2010
Status and trends in the education of minority groups
Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
Building an early childhood professional development system
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Understanding the K-12 common core standards in English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Science achievement and occupational career/technical education coursetaking in high school: The class of 2005
Is school funding fair? A national report card
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
A first look at the common core and college and career readiness
The advanced placement program benefits mainly well-prepared students who pass AP exams
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
State and local policy for reconnecting youth
State policies regarding undocumented college students: A narrative of unresolved issues, ongoing debate and missed opportunities
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Achievement gaps: How Hispanic and white students in public schools perform in mathematics and reading perform on the national assessment of educational progress
K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Slow off the mark: Elementary school teachers and the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and math education
Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Parents' guide to student success
Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
America's high school graduates: Results from the 2009 NAEP High School Transcript Study
The condition of college and career readiness 2011
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
The College Match Program
Engineering solutions to the national crisis in literacy: How to make good on the promise of common core state standards
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Yesterday's nontraditional student is today's traditional student
Ready by 21 case study: Petaluma
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Cities in crisis: A special analytic report on high school graduation
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
Dropout risk factors and exemplary programs: A technical report
Science and mathematics education indicators
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
50-state analysis of the preparation of teachers and the conditions for teaching: Results from the NCES schools and staffing survey
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
What every college access practitioner should know about: The early college high school initiative – Indiana plans for the early college high school for science and technologies
Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education
Early intervention program and college partnerships
Aligning high school graduation requirements with the real world: A road map for states
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
Child care assistance in 2004: States have fewer funds for child care
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Projected high school graduates
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
PISA 2006: OECD Briefing notes for the United States
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce
Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects
Education Commission of the States: Research studies database
National dropout prevention center for students with disabilities
The effects of cognitive-behavioral interventions on dropout for youth with disabilities
Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
Using EXPLORE® and PLAN® Data to Evaluate GEAR UP Programs
Setting students' sights on college: Chicago public schools
The benefits of statewide use of the ACT test
EPAS®: A system that works
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Hispanic students’ ACT scores hold steady as number of those testing increases at record pace
Relationships between students' high school and middle school experiences and later completion of a Bachelor's degree
College degree nearly doubles annual earnings; Indiana lags nation in attainment of bachelor's degree
Graduation matters: Improving accountability for high school graduation
The sensitivity of the ACT to instruction
What kind of test preparation is best?
Education watch California: Key education facts and figures
Comprehensive school reform quality center report on middle and high school comprehensive school reform models
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Digest of education statistics: 2006
Washington Data and Reports
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Highlights of the 2007 Accountability System in the State of Texas
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Colorado Reports
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures
Education watch Colorado: Key education facts and figures 2006
Building a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) agenda
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
Schools need good leaders now: State progress in creating a learning-centered school leadership system
Student debt and the class of 2006
Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
Where have all the students gone
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students
Negotiating their futures: Ethnographic research informing K-16 college policies and practices through urban youth’s eyes
Confronting the graduation rate crisis in the south
Powerful pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
High school graduation, completion, and dropout indicators: A primer and catalog
Projections of education statistics to 2014
Indiana higher education opportunity data book
Indiana college intentions by county
Latino youth and the pathway to college
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
School counselors by state, 2002
Basic facts about in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students
The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act
Outcomes of learning: Results from the 2000 program for international student assessment of 15 year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy
State high school exit exams: A maturing reform
High schools for the new millennium
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Student readiness for college: Connecting state policies
Involving families in high school and college expectations
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Closing the aspirations-attainment gap: Implications for high school reform
Redesigning high schools to prepare students for the future
Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- curriculum and assessment systems
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
State of college admission 2007
Residence and migration for college freshmen for Indiana
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
Issue brief - What students need, part 1: Dropout prevention and recovery
Indiana guidance report: Learn More student survey
Dropout rates in the United States: 2001
A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002
Fair test: Schools that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students into Bachelor's degree program
The nation's dropout crisis: Indiana's tool-box to help students succeed
Working together: Aligning state systems and policies for individual and regional prosperity
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Embedding college readiness indicators in high school curriculum and assessment
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Kids Count state-level data online
Schools to watch
Talent Development High Schools
Building academic skills in context: Testing the value of advanced math learning in career and technical education
School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia educational longitudinal study
Closing educational achievement gaps for Latino/a students in Utah
Who graduates in the South: Minority students lag behind, effects of segregation persist
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
Highlights from the 2003 international adult literacy and lifeskills survey
The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Breaking barriers: A case study of two high performing high schools
Correctional education facts
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Just for the kids
Recent STEM initiatives
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
Distance education
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Understanding high school graduation rates (updated): National and state-specific information
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Graduation rates in Indiana: An analysis of various methods of caluculating graduation rates
Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high school
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Lining up: The relationship between the common core state standards and five sets of comparison standards
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
College Search Database.com
Characteristics of GED recipients in high school: 2002-06
School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America
Today's promise, tomorrow's future: The social and educational factors contributing to the outcomes of Hispanics in urban schools
Dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts: 2010-11
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
2011 College-bound seniors: Total group profile report
Common core state standards: Progress and challenges in school districts' implementation
The Future Ready Project
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Adolescent literacy
Early warning system middle grades tool
The college completion agenda: 2011 state policy guide
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
California District Report Cards
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
On the road to success
Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic (2012 Update)
Is high school tough enough?
2012 National survey of school counselors
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
K-12 postsecondary alignment and school accountability: Investigating high school responses to California's early assessment program
The role of language and literacy in college- and career-ready standards: Rethinking policy and practice in support of English language learners
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Digest of Education Statistics 2011
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
Do schools challenge our students? What student surveys tell us about the state of education in the United States
Educational attainment of foster youth: Achievement and graduation outcomes for children in state care
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
The first year of high school
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program

 

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