The statistic in Mayor John DeStefano Jr.'s 2006 inaugural speech sounded like an A+ on a report card: 12 years ago the high school dropout rate was 30 percent. Today it has fallen to 17 percent. In a troubled school system, good news like this can inspire kids and please parents.
California's dropout statistics are horrifying. Only 68 percent of our entering freshmen class graduate from high school in four years. In some districts, the graduation rates barely reach 50 percent. The official dropout rate is 24 percent but it is understated because the past three governors have under-invested in a student information system. But even with our current understated dropout measures we know the number of dropouts at 24 percent is even worse among Latino students at 31.3 percent and African- American students at 41.3 percent. Frankly, some schools push low-performing students out so their test scores will rise.
The California Department of Education on Monday released updated statistics on high school dropouts for the 2007-08 school year. The numbers showed significantly better performance for Los Angeles Unified campuses than earlier data released in May. The new figures showed about 26.4 percent of district high schools were dropouts, down from previously reported 34.9 percent.
...Graduation and dropout statistics about the Creamer Center in Worcester are not read...
Why does Michigan have a law on the books dating back decades that makes it "legal" for children to drop out of school at the age of 16? Whose kids should be allowed to leave school without at least a high school diploma? Yours, mine? Our state policies should mirror what any of us would at a minimum want and expect for our own children. We have moved from a society where you needed to be able to "lift" for a living to a society where you now need to "think" for a living. And given today's fast-paced global economy, allowing children to leave school without the education they need and deserve is state-sponsored stupidity at best and institutionalized racism at worst. We need to move beyond the old Henry Ford slogan, "You can have any color of car you like, as long as it is black," and d...
... school diploma, let alone a high school dropout, in more than a decade. The armed forces now requi...If we had the horrific dropout statistics in our White, middle-class suburbs as we do in Nat...
School dropout statistics released Wednesday by the state Department of Education, indicating that about one in four high school students in the state drop out, were greeted as a revelation by many. But for some schools, the dropout numbers likely left some officials scratching their heads.
The Urban Institute's data are widely at variance with statistics on which American educational and, to some degree, social and economic policies are based. The report asserts its methodology is a "more accurate" way to "provide estimates of high school graduation rates, distinguished at the state and district level, and disaggregated by race" than the numbers developed by the Current Population Survey and the Center for Educational Statistics, which "relies heavily on underestimated dropout data. In a society in which the rich and racist rule, every reputed reform ultimately works to the detriment of the oppressed - for example, "urban renewal" becomes "Black removal." So it is with No Child Left Behind, whose implementation may actually accelerate a process that encourages young Bl...
The Editorial Project in Education, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, reported that the Detroit Public Schools has the worst graduation rate of the top 50 large urban school districts in America. Detroit Public School officials quickly denounced this study, which further reported that in 2003, the Detroit schools graduated only a fifth of their students on time. The district quickly provided statistics stating they actually graduated 44.5 percent in 2003 and raised that to 68 percent in 2005. Don't shrug your shoulders and think the dropout problem does not impact you simply because you live outside the city limits. Michigan is severely hampered in competing in the 21st century knowledge economy, due to our lack of education for a majority of our residents. Cities, reg...
North Jersey students survived a brand-new SAT test in writing last year, with the region's wealthiest high schools earning the best scores. The first-ever local results on the writing test were released by the state Department of Education on Wednesday as part of the 12th annual New Jersey School Report Card. The report features telling statistics about every school in the state, such as test scores, dropout rates, average class size and per-pupil spending figures.
No doubt about it, GREAT is an appropriate acronym for a great program. It stands for Gang Resistance Education and Training, a program already tried with success in the Toppenish School District and now headed for Yakima. It's premise is simple, but effective: Get to students at a young age, when they can be approached and taught the dangers and pitfalls of gang activity and before they become dropout statistics.
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