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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"high school dropout rates"”.
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A study of high school dropout rates in a Midwestern community
1 PDF file (xi, 135 pages)
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High School Dropout Rates Among Minority Students in a Northern California Suburban Area
… Excellence & Equity (E3) program is about the dropout rates among minority students within a certain county in Northern California. Why are minority students dropping out at higher rates than their white counterparts? The research hypothesis is that the dropout rate is higher among minority …
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Divided by design: residential segregation and its impact on high school dropout rates in Texas
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Trends in Juvenile Delinquency
… the introduction, factors such as unemployment rates, high school dropout rates, poverty, and juvenile delinquency case rates in the United States, which are actually the variables that are used in the study to illustrate a relationship between them and the current trend in juvenile delinquency. …
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“Pa’ tra’ ni pa’ coger impulso”: parental influences on the education journey of low-income Latino males who “made it” to a four-year university
… from low-income backgrounds have one of the highest high school dropout rates and lowest college enrollment and graduation rates in the United States. Like many disadvantaged students, low-income Latino males face multi-systemic obstacles that limit them from realizing their full potential in …
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Understanding School Dropout: An Analysis of the Underlying Causes and Their Significance in Building Meaningful Interventions
<p>This paper is a review of research regarding high school dropout rates and trends in the United States. Findings on the underlying reasons students are dropping out and analyzing this data can help implement widely accessible multi-level support systems in the schools and design sensible …
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Southeast Asian American Students’ Perspectives on Influences that Lead to High School Dropout
<p>High school dropouts continue to happen in the U.S. without a clear solution. Southeast Asian American (SEAA) is a population with significantly disproportionate high school dropout rates and one of the lowest enrollment rates in higher education. This study seeks to challenge the notion that …
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VOICES IN THE HALL: A BLACK MALE STUDENT CENTERED EXAMINATION OF ENGAGEMENT IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ART CLASS
… experiences and perceptions of black male middle school students in an urban visual art class. Black male students have endured unequal educational outcomes such as dropping out of school at a higher rate than many of their peers of other races (NCES, 2013). Previous studies have shown that many …
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Barriers to High School Student Academic Success
… legislation known as No Child Left Behind, school districts are under increasing pressure to decrease high school dropout rates and to increase high school graduation rates. There is a critical need for schools to develop and implement programs designed to maximize academic success for all …
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Understanding the High School Dropout Process Through Student Engagement and School Processes: Evidence from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002
<p>Dropping out of school has been viewed as a final stage in a cumulative process of disengagement. In recent years, the construct of engagement has received increased attention leading policymakers and scholars to suggest that efforts to increase engagement in school could reduce high school …
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Essays on Technology and Work
… smaller for those with one standard deviation higher scores of extraversion. Conscientiousness appears to have no differential impact conditional on other traits. Cognitive ability and education predict a significantly smaller initial drop in earnings but have no long-term advantage. Our …
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Plessy to Brown: Education of Mexican Americans in Arizona public schools during the era of segregation
… of the historical events that shaped the public school education of Mexican American children in Arizona in the first half of the twentieth century. This study also examines how segregation was established in two cities in northern Arizona and how schooling affected the feelings and emotions of …
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A Study of Ninth-Grade Transition Practices Across the Commonwealth of Virginia
… ninth-grade students transitioning into the high school setting continue to stimulate substantial interest in identifying the various factors that cause the ninth-grade bottleneck. Extensive research shows that when ninth-grade students transition into the high school setting, students have a …