Progress toward Increasing National and State Graduation Rates. Raising Graduation Rates: A Series of Data Briefs

Autor/inn/en	Balfanz, Robert; West, Thomas C.
Titel	Progress toward Increasing National and State Graduation Rates. Raising Graduation Rates: A Series of Data Briefs
Quelle	(2006), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Graduation Rate; Incidence; Human Capital; Dropouts; Alabama; Arkansas; Delaware; Hawaii; Kentucky; Missouri; Nebraska; New Hampshire; New York; North Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Vorkommen; Humankapital; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; South-Dakota
Abstract	This is the first in a series of briefs examining the progress in raising high school graduation rates over the past decade. During this period, the prevailing belief has been that all students who wanted to or needed to graduate did so. However, it is now recognized that in every state there are too many communities and schools where high school graduation is not the norm. Moreover, a widespread national consensus developed that state and national graduation rates were far from where they needed to be to insure success in the 21st century. As awareness of the magnitude, scope and consequences of the nation's graduation challenge grew in the past decade, many states and communities responded with a call to action and a diversity of attempts to increase graduation rates. Has this made a difference? How far do we still have to go to graduate all students from high school prepared for college, career, and civic life? This first data brief looks at progress in raising graduation rates in the nation and its 50 states. It examines national and statewide progress in raising the high school graduation rate between 2002 and 2006. (Contains 3 tables.) [This document was produced by The Everyone Graduates Center, located at the Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University.] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Center for Social Organization of Schools. 3003 North Charles Street Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Tel: 410-516-8800; Fax: 410-516-8890; Web site: http://www.csos.jhu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10