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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Successful Efforts in Secondary Education

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 ...

Whites v. Blacks and Dropout Rate Disproportionment

2005). Despite the changes in college attendance levels noted above, black males are much less likely to graduate from co...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

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

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...

High School Language, Direct Learning, and Cooperative Learning Approaches

occurs in practically all human relations. It occurs between married couples, between college students, even between children. I...

School MIS Study Outline

How effectively the system is being used. 6. Make recommendations for improvements to the system, where appropriate. 7. Identify, ...

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...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

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....

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

Breast Cancer Risk

order to come to an uninformed answer to the research questions. Statistical analysis was not undertaken due to the inconsistenc...

Instruction in High School Grammar Lesson Plan

Teach the teacher a new instructional design or some better way of grammar instruction! There are three parts to your task, and e...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...