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overall School Dropout Rates and Gender Differences in Dropout
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These subgroup
ratings weigh heavily in the
overall performance
rating for a
school or district because the
rating given by the state is based on the lowest performance on any single criterion (TAAS,
dropout rate, attendance
rate) for any subpopulation.
«Our goal is to turn around the 5,000 lowest - performing
schools over the next five years, as part of our
overall strategy for dramatically reducing the
dropout rate, improving high
school graduation
rates and increasing the number of students who graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace,» said Arne Duncan, the administration's new secretary of education in August of that year.
The
overall argument of the report — that efforts to bring college preparatory education to public
schools (and improve the rigor of curriculum in American public education) is contributing to the nation's
dropout crisis — doesn't hold water when one knows that the nation's five - year graduation
rate has barely budged between the Classes of 1991 and 2007 (81 percent and 78 percent, respectively).
In addition to mirroring the
overall statewide graduation
rate uptick, Valley
schools experienced a statewide decline in
dropout rates.
The SIFE population presents a range of special challenges to U.S. education systems, especially at the high
school level where the
overall dropout rate of immigrant teens is very high (Morse, 2005; Osterling, 2001).