Most schools, if they collect dropout data at all, use sketchy information that
often varies from school to school.
Not exact matches
Private
schools are
often prohibitively expensive, homeschooling can seem intimidating and the quality of public
schools vary greatly
from town -
to - town.
Often, these attributes can be added
to existing
schools, with the cost
varying not just
from project
to project but also in relation
to the age and health of the buildings.
In those cases where the legislative models are designed
to make children
from all economic levels eligible for vouchers, the means of integration have
varied from full and partial admissions lotteries
to modest set - asides of a portion (
often 20 percent) of a
school's new admissions for low - income applicants.
And like other public
schools engaged in major
school reform, their approaches
to education
often vary dramatically
from one another.
District and state interventions mandated uniformly across all low - performing
schools often miss the mark because they fail
to account for contextual factors that
vary from school to school.
Educators
often wrangle with the «summer slide,»
varying degrees of academic regression students face upon returning
to school, after taking a three - month break
from regular daily instruction.