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Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

California School District Budget Proposal

students); and three grade 6 classrooms (78 students). The professional staff includes one principal, one part-time assistant pr...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

Classroom Setting and 'Time Outs'

The educator is faced with a variety of problems in regard to proper student behavior in the educational setting. While it is...

Early Retention in Education: Does it Improve Student Achievement?

is that before the start of the 20th century, children in schools were not even grouped according to grade levels, but instead bas...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

Twenty Item School Climate Survey

also agree that teachers listen to their ides. Since the principal is the one who must administer discipline, some students would ...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

Plan For Building School, Parent, Community Partnership

for the grade level (Epstein, 1995). * Parent conferences are held twice each year at this school. The process will change to req...

When the Tuition Bill Arrives Remain in School!

A one page paper contains a letter of persuasion directed toward school administrators that claims a student's grades, commitment ...

Flunking Out of College, the Causes

Prickhart (2009) writes that what happens to make young people associate in bars and drink, especially in college, is that the per...

Achieving Goals

part of being a teenager and also plays an important role in the overall high school experience; however, in order to achieve my d...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

Retaining Employees

of employees and looking for the best employees to increase the value created, possible to make up for letting some employees go. ...

Amish Culture

wheels and horse shoes" and complying with "public health inoculation programs, as well as compliance with other public health reg...

Legacy System Dilemmas

productivity paradox indicated that there may never be a full return in terms of increased productivity (Lichtenberg, 1995). Tod...

How Money Woes Inflate Grades

operating at convenient hours. They want convenient parking, polite staff, and quality education at affordable prices for which th...

Decreasing Drop-Out Rate In Washington State

rate in the state of Washington was 30 percent (Puget Sound Educational Service District, 2006). Although how this figure was dete...

Hypothetical Study/Parent-Teacher Conferences

are numerous obstacles that can interfere with parents attending and understanding parent/teacher conferences. Some parents are im...

Upper Elementary Grades, Reading Achievement, and the Impact of Technology

fact that much more focus needs to be placed upon going back to the basics in order to give students the needed edge. However, th...

Georgia Education Demographic Analysis

In this paper consisting of six pages Georgia demographic data based on 1990 census information is applied to the educational syst...

Elementary School Student Retention

In eight pages this paper discusses studies on elementary student retention with failing a grade student withholding among the top...

Creation of Freshman Wings

In eight pages this paper examines ninth grade school transition issues and the impact of freshman wings' creation in schools as a...

Viability of Grade Retention

use of voluntary retention is a way to help a failing child succeed (Perry, 1999). The trend is really based on anecdotal evidence...

GPA Assessment and Plan for Study

level higher than a 3 in the rest of the assessments. ICA001 is seeing a higher level of achievement, there have also been three...

A Discussion of Three Concepts

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

High School Dropout Prevention

not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. ...