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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"High School Dropout Rate"”.
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The Relationship between Student Discipline Disproportionality and High School Dropout Rate
… disproportionality in student discipline and high school dropout rate. Using discipline and dropout data from a mid-Atlantic state school district, discipline disproportionality and dropout rate amongst high school African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian male and females over a period of …
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Perceptions of Adult High School Dropouts Concerning Participation in GED Preparation Programs.
… to attain and analyze the perceptions of adult high school dropouts living in the Southwest Virginia region concerning participation in General Educational Development (GED) preparation programs. Mounting evidence underscores the facts that the high school dropout rate remains high across the …
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Latino Academic Achievement: Impact of Individual, Family, School, Community and Immigration Factors
… and dynamic interaction of individual, family, school, community, and immigration factors on the academic achievement of Latino students through a secondary data analysis of the ELS: 2002 dataset utilizing hierarchical linear modeling. Academic achievement is measured with a dichotomous …
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Assessing the Efficacy of the Training Opportunities Program for Undiscovered Potential (TOP UP) Dropout Prevention Program at Western Kentucky University for At-Risk High School Students
… and career orientation needs of "at risk" high school students from the ten county Barren River Area Development District (BRADD). The primary focus of the program revolves around an eight-week, residential work-study phase held on campus and targets sixty "at risk" high school students …
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Strategies to facilitate the implementation of existing life orientation curriculum in secondary schools of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… abuse, poor academic performance, violence, high school dropout rate and HIV/AIDS prevalence among secondary school students. The grounds of these problems are considered to be related to inadequate Life Orientation Education which should equip the learners with psychosocial competencies, but …
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Essays on Technology and Work
… and track firms and workers over time. We demonstrate novel text analysis and machine learning methods to perform matching and to measure specific technological changes. To understand our findings, we outline a theoretical framework that contrasts two types of technological change: process versus …
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Factors Predicting Academic Success for Impoverished Urban High School Freshmen.
… year for low socioeconomic students in one urban high school. This was an ex post facto study conducted in one urban high school in East Tennessee. The subjects were students enrolled in the 9<sup>th</sup> grade during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 academic school years. Low socioeconomic students …