Advocates of teacher - training programs say one reason for
the relatively high dropout rate is the traditional teacher education, which they say relies too heavily on classroom theory instead of arming newcomers with practical tactics to cope with a packed classroom of students with divergent abilities, language barriers or difficulty sitting still for 30 minutes.
Not exact matches
[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not
high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates
higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of
dropout and for - profit students, who have
high rates of default even on
relatively small debts.
Just as
relatively few U.S.
high schools are responsible for the majority of our
dropouts, it may also be the case that
relatively few schools are responsible for our discipline disparities.
The things still undone after 11 years include a
relatively small but stubborn achievement gap, a
high dropout rate, and struggling programs for English language learners and special - education students.
In reality, is the
dropout rate
relatively high or low in your school or district?
Other limitations of the study include the use of self - report measures and
relatively high pretreatment
dropout rates.