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greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...
not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. ...
poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...
have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...
drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...
calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...
average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...
would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...
do harm if they want to. Columbine is a good case study to use in examining this issue. The Columbine massacre entailed the juve...
This paper examines the reasons why an increasing number of teenagers are quitting high school in twelve pages with various sugges...
those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...
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...
(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...
rate throughout the country and have been active in Texas for some time ($130 Million Committed, 2003). Texas is one state that f...
public school population, have the highest number of high school graduates (316,124), the District of Columbia, with the smallest ...
reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...
go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...
The relationship among these various concepts in the human search for safety is considered in six pages with the consumption of al...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how the rates of high school dropouts can be reduced through the Title I program. Nine sourc...
In five pages this paper proposes intervention that would prevent future school violence like that which took place in Littleton, ...
In thirty pages this essay discusses public school system problems, private school alternatives, and charter school issues as they...
of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...
In twenty four pages this paper examines programs designed to prevent dropping out of school with the importance of self esteem co...
In seven pages this paper concentrates on high school students who are considered at risk and various issues and problems involvin...
have HIV/AIDS and if they do, this isnt something they would likely share with their students), and how the topic is presented. It...
of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...
School improvement efforts for all grade levels is not a new idea. The most recent push was in the mid-1990s. We are all familiar ...
to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...
This journalistic style article considers this topic in a report consisting of 6 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...