Download or read book WCPSS High School Graduation Rates written by Roger Regan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) four-year cohort graduation rate declined slightly to 80.6% in 2011-12 from 80.9% in the previous year. Disaggregated graduation rates for most racial and ethnic groups stayed nearly the same or declined slightly in 2011-12, but the rate for African-American students rose from 67.9% to 69.6%. The other bright spot was the continued rise in the rate for economically disadvantaged students (ED), which increased from 63.0% to 65.1%. Four-year cohort graduation rates at the 24 WCPSS high schools ranged from 66.4% to 94.7% in 2011-12. Rates increased at almost half the schools and declined at the others. Seventeen high schools, or 71%, had rates over 80%. In contrast to WCPSS, the four-year graduation rate for the state of North Carolina and six comparison North Carolina public school districts increased in 2011-12. WCPSS's graduation rates for the subgroups of Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, ED, and students with limited English proficiency (LEP) continue to trail the rates at the state level and other large NC districts.
Download or read book High School Four Year Graduation Rates Wake County Public School System WCPSS written by Glenda Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-year cohort graduation rate for WCPSS [Wake County Public School System] in 2009-10 was 78.2%, down slightly from 2008-09, when 78.4% of that year's cohort graduated within four years. Female students in WCPSS had a much higher graduation rate than male students (82.9% vs. 73.6%). Graduation rates for the Asian (91.3%), Hispanic/Latino (54.2%), Black/African American (63.9%) subgroups increased, but the White (89.3%) and Multiracial (75.7%) rates decreased. Students with disabilities (57.0%), students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (59.2%), and students with limited English proficiency (36.7%) all had graduation rates that were substantially below the system-wide average. WCPSS overall rates compare favorably to other North Carolina school districts, the state, and the nation. WCPSS had rates above the state rates and also above most of the comparison districts for male, female, Asian, Multiracial, and White students; however, graduation rates for Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, FRL [free or reduced-price lunch], and LEP [limited English proficiency] subgroups were below the state rate. In WCPSS, individual high school rates in 2009-10 varied from 72.6% to 92.8%. Fifteen of twenty-five (60%) schools had graduation rates above 80%.
Download or read book WCPSS High School Graduation Rates 2012 13 Measuring Up D A Report No 14 03 written by Roger Regan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's economy, graduating from high school is more important than ever. The economic consequences of dropping out of high school are more severe than in the past, with diminished job prospects and life-time earnings (Rouse, 2007). There are also substantial social costs associated with high school dropouts such as lower productivity and tax revenues. At the same time, the path to on-time graduation has arguably become more difficult, with higher academic expectations and stricter requirements. While the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has been fairly successful compared to other large school districts in graduating four-fifths of its high school students, there is still a lot of room for improvement, particularly for its more vulnerable students. In addition to presenting detailed statistics on high school graduation rates in 2012-13, this report also seeks to highlight the demographic and academic characteristics of students who did not graduate. Suggestions for improving high school graduation rates are also discussed.
Download or read book High School Five Year Graduation Rates Wake County Public School System WCPSS written by Glenda Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009-10, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction was approved to include a five-year graduation rate as well as a four-year rate in determining if schools, districts, and the state made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the NCLB Act. This rate was based on the incoming 9th grade students of 2005-06. The denominator of the cohort remained the same for both the 2008-09 four-year and the 2009-10 five-year rate with an additional 296 graduates added to the numerator in the fifth year. The 2009-10 five-year district rate rose to 81.5% from a 2008-09 four-year rate of 78.4%. The subgroups with the largest increases were limited English proficient (9.8 percentage points), economically disadvantaged (7.8 percentage points), and students with disabilities subgroups (7.4 percentage points). Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American students had the largest rate increases among ethnic subgroups (6.6 and 5.5 percentage points, respectively).
Download or read book Best Practices to Promote High School Graduation Research Watch E R Report No 08 15 written by Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), Evaluation and Research Department and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant attention and resources have been focused on reforming high schools to enhance graduation rates. The research literature supports the following practices: (1) For struggling students, accurate identification and intensive instructional, monitoring, and counseling support; (2) For 9th graders, transition activities, personalization, and academic support strategies; and (3) For teachers, intensive training to help them provide effective instruction and support, particularly for students showing signs of risk. Contains a bibliography. [This summary highlights key findings from a more extensive literature review prepared under contract to the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Evaluation & Research Dept. (Donley, 2008).].
Download or read book A Brief Look at written by Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), Evaluation and Research Department and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 4th, 2010, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released its annual statewide Dropout Report covering the 2008-09 school year. The charts in this report show the dropout rate for Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) compared to the state as a whole, to other large school districts in North Carolina, and by federal No Child Left Behind subgroups. Note that rates are rounded to one decimal place in the charts with normal rounding rules applied, but in the text, two decimal places are used. These analyses reveal the following: (1) Posting the lowest dropout rate since 2003-04, the WCPSS dropout rate in 2008-09 for grades 9-12 was 3.47%; (2) Other large school districts in North Carolina, including Durham (4.26), Forsyth (4.76), and Mecklenburg (4.99), had higher dropout rates in 2008-09 than did WCPSS, while Guilford (3.13) remained lower. Of those districts, only WCPSS and Guilford have had a rate below the state average in each of the past eleven years; (3) For the first time since 2000-01, the dropout rates for each race/ethnic group declined as compared to the previous year. The largest percentage point declines were for Hispanic/Latino students (1.4 points), Black students (1.1), and Multi-racial students (1.0). No data are reported for Native American students due to very low numbers in that group; and (4) WCPSS dropout rates also declined in 2008-09 among limited English proficient students (0.8 percentage points), students with disabilities (1.2), and students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (1.4). This represented the second consecutive year of declining rates for limited English proficient students and students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Download or read book Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends written by Lawrence R. Mishel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a knowledge-driven economy, those without at least a high school diploma will be far more limited in their work prospects than those with one. But scholars and educators disagree on the rate of graduation in U.S. high schools. Some new statistics seriously understate minority graduation rates and fail to reflect the tremendous progress in the last few decades in closing the black-white and the Hispanic-white graduation gaps. Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends analyzes the current sources of available data on high school completion and dropout rates and finds that, while graduation rates need much improvement, they are higher, and getting better.
Download or read book The Age of Austerity written by Thomas Byrne Edsall and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices—or worse, choices with no winners. Resource competition between Democrats and Republicans has left each side determined to protect what it has at the expense of the other. The major issues of the next few years—long-term deficit reduction; entitlement reform, notably of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; major cuts in defense spending; and difficulty in financing a continuation of American international involvement—suggest that your-gain-is-my-loss politics will inevitably intensify.
Download or read book High School Dropout Graduation and Completion Rates written by National Academy of Education and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may seem like a straightforward task, their calculation is in fact quite complicated. How does one count a student who leaves a regular high school but later completes a GED? How does one count a student who spends most of his/her high school years at one school and then transfers to another? If the student graduates, which school should receive credit? If the student drops out, which school should take responsibility? High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates addresses these issues and to examine (1) the strengths, limitations, accuracy, and utility of the available dropout and completion measures; (2) the state of the art with respect to longitudinal data systems; and (3) ways that dropout and completion rates can be used to improve policy and practice.
Download or read book Dropout Rate for WCPSS written by Brad McMillen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2014 the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) released its annual statewide Dropout Report covering the 2012-13 school year. This district report contains the dropout rate for WCPSS high school students and also depicts rates for other large school districts in North Carolina (NC) in addition to selected WCPSS student subgroups. Despite increases in student membership each year, WCPSS continues to maintain a steady decline in dropout counts. In 2012-13, the WCPSS high school dropout rate fell to 1.95%, its lowest rate ever. The WCPSS rate is lower than the state's rate, and also the lowest of the other four large school districts in North Carolina (Guilford 2.07%, Forsyth 2.72%, Mecklenburg 3.02%, and Durham 3.21%). WCPSS dropout rates by ethnicity in 2012-13 also fell for all subgroups, with Black/African-American students experiencing the largest drop of 1.8 percentage points, from 4.6% in 2011- 12 to 2.8% in 2012-13.
Download or read book Integrating Schools in a Changing Society written by Erica Frankenberg and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Contributors to Integrating Schools in a Changing Society draw on extensive research to reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts.
Download or read book Trends in High School Graduation Rates Research Brief written by Dale Romanik and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Brief addresses an outcome measure that is of paramount importance to senior high schools--graduation rate. Nationwide a student drops out of school approximately every nine seconds. The significance of this issue locally is exemplified by a recent American Civil Liberties Union filing of a class action law suit against the Palm Beach County Public Schools claiming the district's low graduation rate violated the Florida Constitution. Data will be presented indicating that four-year graduation rates for M-DCPS students in grades 9-12 have increased for all three of the major racial/ethnic groups for the past three cohorts. The seven most frequently used methods to calculate graduation rate are also presented. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.).
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Download or read book Wake County s Big Secret written by Deena Y. Trebil and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to live in North Carolina to consider reading this book. This is a true story of a community pulled apart by a local government and its control of their civic liberties. The cover reveals the immensity of the problem in Wake County, currently the nation's fourth largest school system. This collection of communities is divided into 700 Orwellian nodes to be mixed, matched and reassigned across 400 square miles. The book details what that means in human terms; families and neighbors who awake one morning to find the government sitting in the living room. This book is especially recommended for those considering relocation to Wake County, home of Cary,'Best City in America 2007'. You should know Wake County's big secret before you move here. Anyone interested in the cause and effect of inefficiencies on escalating property taxes will also find this book enormously informative.
Download or read book The Core Six written by Harvey F. Silver and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2012 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on their extensive research and practice in schools across the United States, the authors of this indispensable guide offer six research-based, classroom-proven strategies that every K-12 teacher needs to respond to the Common Core State Standards. This practical book includes sample lesson plans and checklists to ensure effective implementation of each strategy in the classroom.
Download or read book A Brief Look at written by Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), Evaluation and Research Department and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WCPSS dropout rate in 2009-10 for grades 9-12 was 3.53%, compared to 3.47% in 2008-09. The state's rate showed a decrease in 2009-10--from 4.27% to 3.75%. Other large school districts in North Carolina, including Durham (4.32%), Forsyth (4.07%), and Mecklenburg (4.15%), had higher dropout rates in 2009-10 than did WCPSS, while Guilford (2.81%) remained lower. Of those districts, only WCPSS and Guilford have had a rate below the state average in each of the past twelve years.
Download or read book More High School Graduates How Schools Can Save Students FromDropping Out written by Ben Levin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More High School Graduates" is a comprehensive guide for school leaders and government policymakers committed to boosting high school graduation rates. Drawing from his knowledge as an education official and professor, author Ben Levin presents a system to turn around secondary schools that is adaptable for local-, district-, and state-level decision making. Offering a road map for improvement, this book's practical and specific recommendations have increased graduation rates across hundreds of high schools. Components include: (1) Keeping track of all students' progress and intervening early to prevent failure; (2) Establishing curriculum and graduation requirements that support increased student success; (3) Improving teaching and learning; (4) Connecting with the community to engage families, local businesses, and other stakeholders in improving graduation rates; and (5) Implementing methods for planning, communicating, and winning support. The stigma of "dropout factories" hangs over school districts and education agencies. This book helps turn any school or district into a success factory producing more graduates and better learning outcomes. [Foreword by Michael Fullan. This book is a joint publication with opc.].
