The extra effort that schools make to support students in all these circumstances will likely determine whether schools achieve higher or
lower high school completion rates than expected.
States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as
high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.
The answer is yes, as proved by Donelle McInerney, a PE teacher at Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury, Western Australia, whose Indigenous Yorgas Sports Academy has increased girls»
high school completion rates seven-fold.
To learn more about increasing school completion rates, we should study both those states that greatly exceed the
expected high school completion rate and those that fall far below it for clues about what these states are doing differently.
«First, significant reduction of deprivation can be attained by implementing new policies related to health insurance coverage, such as through the Affordable Care Act;
improving high school completion rates, especially among Hispanics; and constraining housing costs.
Presenting some new and revised data released since its first report a year ago, the panel of governors, Bush Administration officials, and members of Congress reported positive trends
in high school completion rates, Advanced Placement course enrollments, and student drug and alcohol use.
Murnane (2013) finds
that high school completion rates have been increasing since 1970 with larger increases for black and Hispanic students; Baum, Ma and Pavea (2013) find that postsecondary enrollment rates have been increasing since the 1980s, particularly for those from poor families.
Chronic absenteeism;
high school completion rate (based on diplomas and GEDs; looser than cohort grad rate).
The high school completion rate for 18 - to 24 - year - olds has risen only slightly over the past three decades, despite an ever - sharpening focus on education issues over that same period, the U.S. Department of Education has reported.
«An indicator with important policy considerations is
the high school completion rate,» Lippman told Education World.
High school completion rates have also been rising for other racial and ethnic groups, but their rates were not at record highs in 2013.
Numerous indicators, from standardized test scores to
high school completion rates, show blacks and Latinos trailing their white and Asian peers.
Indeed, a vigorous critique of the effects of large - scale assessment has developed as the tests in question have become increasingly high - stakes for students, teachers, and administrators.233 On the other hand, in a comparison of high - and low - accountability states, Carnoy and Loeb (2002) found significantly greater achievement in eighth - grade mathematics for students in high - accountability states, with no difference in retention or
high school completion rates.
Michael Fullan (formerly U Toronto, now independent consultant) was part of a team that led education reform in Ontario, Canada, which now has Canada's most rigorous provincial education system and
highest school completion rates in Canada.
The long - dormant concern about dropouts revived several years ago, however, when half a dozen independent researchers in universities and think tanks began publishing estimates of
high school completion rates that contradicted the official rates.
At the same time that
high school completion rates have fallen, labor market prospects for dropouts are becoming increasingly dire.
Jay Greene at the Manhattan Institute estimated
a high school completion rate of 71 percent for 1998; Christopher Swanson and Duncan Chaplin at the Urban Institute estimated 66.6 percent for 2000; Thomas Mortenson of Postsecondary Education Opportunity estimated 66.1 percent for 2000; Andrew Sum and colleagues at Northeastern University estimated 68.7 percent for 1998; and Walter Haney and colleagues at Boston College estimated 74.4 percent for 2001.
The recent independent estimates of
high school completion rates are almost always lower than the official estimates — including those that states have reported to the U.S. Department of Education under the requirements of No Child Left Behind and the state estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics.
The factors identified in the GAO report — that low - income students and high - mobility students are high - risk, that low achievement and grade retention are precursors to leaving school — provide a guide for what we need to do to improve
high school completion rates.
The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and
high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.
In fact,
the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010).
The country is trying to boost
its high school completion rates to 90 percent.
Pataula Charter Academy and Hapeville Charter Career Academy placed in the top 50 in the state for
their high school completion rate.
Data Quality Campaign and Chalkboard Project examine nine states and
their high school completion rates and suggest ways to impact high school completion.
Barton cites a General Accounting Office report that identified four factors correlated with low
high school completion rates: coming from low - income and single - parent families, getting low grades in school, being absent frequently, and changing schools.
In 2009, a research project identified correlations between major changes in family structure and
high school completion rates.