Essays 1 - 30
poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how the rates of high school dropouts can be reduced through the Title I program. Nine sourc...
This paper examines the reasons why an increasing number of teenagers are quitting high school in twelve pages with various sugges...
go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...
Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...
In eight pages Hispanics are examined within the context of their high rates of dropping out of high school with sociocultural and...
given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...
In seven pages this study provides a literature review on school rates of dropout and how to predict and determine causal factors....
This journalistic style article considers this topic in a report consisting of 6 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...
public school population, have the highest number of high school graduates (316,124), the District of Columbia, with the smallest ...
not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. ...
to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...
drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...
average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...
greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...
16-24, who are not enrolled in school and havent earned a high school credential, such as a diploma or General Educational Develop...
U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...
In four pages this research proposal that employs a cost and benefit analysis to the performance of at risk middle and senior high...
The relationship among these various concepts in the human search for safety is considered in six pages with the consumption of al...
reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...
rate throughout the country and have been active in Texas for some time ($130 Million Committed, 2003). Texas is one state that f...
calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...
have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...
in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...
programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...
which appear to be much higher in charter schools. These two central concepts are discussed at length in the current literature....
account for there reversal in the infant mortality rates seen since the 1980s. This paper will look at the patterns and trend in...
(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...
In eight pages this paper examines student dropout rates and the problem of U.S. school retention. Eight sources are cited in the...
In five pages the influences of culture and gender regarding school dropout rates are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibl...