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Title: Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends
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Mishel, Lawrence Roy, Joydeep |
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Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2006. Also: http://www.epi.org/books/rethinking_hs_grad_rates/rethinking_hs_grad_rates-FULL_TEXT.pdf Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Economic Policy Institute Keyword(s): Census of Population; GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; High School; High School and Beyond (HSB); High School Diploma; High School Dropouts; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Table of contents INTRODUCTION I. Motivation: The debate II. National longitudinal data III. Graduation rates using school enrollment and diploma data IV. Census Bureau Household Survey data V. Using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series from the 2000 census to assess high school completion and potential biases in the CPS VI. Historical trends VII. The General Education Development (GED) test issue VIII. Comparing alternative measures of high school completion CONCLUSION APPENDIX A: National longitudinal studies APPENDIX B: Case studies based on longitudinal data from Florida, Chicago, and New York City APPENDIX C: Methodology of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) data analysis Endnotes References |
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Mishel, Lawrence and Joydeep Roy. Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2006.. |