dropout rates

Examples of dropout rates in the following topics:

• Unequal Access to Education

  • Thus, sociologists have observed that dropout rates vary among different social groups.
  • For instance, dropout rates are lowest among Asian Americans, followed closely by whites.
  • Thus, sociologists have observed that dropout rates vary among different social groups.
  • For instance, dropout rates are lowest among Asian Americans, followed closely by whites.
  • In part, the disparities in dropout rates may be a symptom of disparities in access to high quality education.

• High School Dropouts

  • Dropouts have a greater likelihood of being arrested.
  • Students may also be at risk for dropout based on social risk factors.
  • Dropout rates also vary geographically, with the lowest rates in northern states.
  • The highest dropout rates occur in the south and southwestern United States.
  • Finally, some education researchers have noted that dropout rates may have been exacerbated by policies such as the U.S.

• Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination

  • This disparity include standardized test scores, grade point average, dropout rates and college enrollment and/or completion rates.

• Understanding STEM

  • The practices, strategies, and programming are built upon a foundation of identified national best practices which are designed to improve under-represented minority and low-income student growth, close achievement gaps, decrease dropout rates, increase high school graduation rates and improve teacher and principal effectiveness.

• English as a Second Language

  • Their higher dropout rates may be due to difficulties in keeping up in mainstream classes or to prior interruptions in their formal education.

• American Indian Relocation

  • There was a 75% dropout rate for the Menominee Tribe, resulting in a generation of Menominee children with only a ninth grade education.
  • As termination continued, the unemployment rates continued to increase.
  • By June 1973, right before the termination policy ended, the tribe had almost a 40 percent unemployment rate, with only 660 individuals in the tribe and 260 individuals who were unemployed.
  • The Menominee Indians experienced high poverty rates from the very beginning of termination, unlike the Klamath Tribe which was able to escape poverty for a brief period.

• The Beginning

  • The following examples concerns modern incarceration rates: "By the end of 2004, 724 out of every 100,000 U.S. residents were incarcerated.
  • The United States of America has the highest jailing rate in the entire world. "
  • Here is an example: "Today, I will be discussing college dropouts.
  • I will be going over the current rate of dropouts, as well as the many common factors that affect these rates.

• Unequal Sample Sizes

  • This, in turn, would increase the Type I error rate for the test of the main effect.
  • Thus, the differential dropout rate destroyed the random assignment of subjects to conditions, a critical feature of the experimental design.

• Crime Statistics

  • The figures below and to the right show that rape rates in the U.S. have declined in recent years and also compare rape rates from select countries around the world.
  • Serving time in prison has become a normative event for young, lower-class African-American males.The average African-American, male, high-school dropout born in the 1960s in the U.S. had a nearly 60% chance of serving time in prison by the end of the 1990s.
  • ratio of African-American incarceration rate to European-American incarceration rate - 8 to 1
  • The chart below tracks homicide rates in the U.S. for the past 100 years.
  • The U.S. does not have the highest homicide rates in the world, but the rates in the U.S. are still relatively high compared to other countries (see chart).

• Chance Error and Bias

  • For example, a survey of high school students to measure teenage use of illegal drugs will be a biased sample because it does not include home-schooled students or dropouts.