Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Questions: drop-out rate

Does the drop-out rate track individual kids or does it just do numbers of kids that come in at 9th and graduate in 12th?
If we can document that they have gone to another school, it doesn't hurt us
How many graduate in four years (compares to college, which gives six years), 'though MA looks at five years, as well
trying to learn from students who dropped out

remedial classes in college: systematic approach to getting students back in and seeing what they don't have or didn't get?
We know for state colleges, not so much for those out of state or in private colleges
issues of college access and college retention
Question around what are the graduation requirements that make the most difference for college success
kids who did well on ACT, what did they do/take?
students who had not had 4 years of math and 3 years of lab science scored lower
kids who hadn't taken math after sophomore year, they had a higher rate of remediation

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