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High School Teens and High Dropout Rates

This paper examines the reasons why an increasing number of teenagers are quitting high school in twelve pages with various sugges...

Reducing High School Dropout Statistics by Applying Title I Social Welfare Policy

In fifteen pages this paper examines how the rates of high school dropouts can be reduced through the Title I program. Nine sourc...

Reducing High School Dropout Rates in North Toledo

poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

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...

Hispanics, High Dropout Rates, and Influential Factors

In eight pages Hispanics are examined within the context of their high rates of dropping out of high school with sociocultural and...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

Evaluating a Study on Why There Are So Many Ballou High School Dropouts

public school population, have the highest number of high school graduates (316,124), the District of Columbia, with the smallest ...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

Safety, Social Problems, Risk and Vulnerability

The relationship among these various concepts in the human search for safety is considered in six pages with the consumption of al...

PhD Admission Essay

rate throughout the country and have been active in Texas for some time ($130 Million Committed, 2003). Texas is one state that f...

Annotated Bibliography in the field of Education

calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

In Favor of Zero Tolerance Drug Policy in High School

in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...

Taking on Hepatitis B in a Philadelphia High School

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

Infant Mortality

account for there reversal in the infant mortality rates seen since the 1980s. This paper will look at the patterns and trend in...

Charter School Rates of Attrition and Paper Introduction

which appear to be much higher in charter schools. These two central concepts are discussed at length in the current literature....

School and Student Retention

In eight pages this paper examines student dropout rates and the problem of U.S. school retention. Eight sources are cited in the...

Gender and Cultural Differences Regarding Dropout Rates

In five pages the influences of culture and gender regarding school dropout rates are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibl...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

Causal Factors of School Dropout Rates

In seven pages this study provides a literature review on school rates of dropout and how to predict and determine causal factors....

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

High School Dropout Prevention

not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. ...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

Silicon Valley High School Dropouts

This journalistic style article considers this topic in a report consisting of 6 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Attendance Policies for High Schools

In seven pages this paper concentrates on high school students who are considered at risk and various issues and problems involvin...