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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? This book 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.--Publisher's description.

High school graduates --- High school dropouts --- Dropout behavior, Prediction of. --- Educational indicators

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A detailed, comprehensive resource for principals, teachers, superintendents, directors and policy makers, whose primary quest is to improve their schools and districts, and help all students achieve at higher levels and graduate from high school.

School improvement programs --- Education --- Educational change --- High school graduates --- Aims and objectives

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Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with advanced industrial economies, the book delineates how the policies relating to these transitions need to be conceived and implemented, how the transitions themselves are negotiated by young people, and how they might be shaped to meet the varied needs of the students they are designed to help. The authors argue that the relationship, often complex, between what schools provide in the way of preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience. With a host of case studies of transition policies themselves, as well as evaluative data on how they were received by the school leavers whom they were designed for, this valuable addition to the educational literature deserves to be read by all those with roles in preparing the young for their journey into a complex adult world full of pitfalls as well as opportunity.

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This book addresses growing reservations about the relevance of educational systems to the economic and social needs of individuals by examining different aspects of transitions from school to work or further studies within formal and informal settings in Asia. Highlighting important issues such as selectiveness and inclusiveness, integration of transversal competencies, vocationalisation of secondary schooling, approaches to career guidance and emerging models of student support, it is of particular interest to educators, policymakers and other stakeholders who are concerned about the effectiveness of system-wide and institutional-based approaches. The first part of the book explores different models, mechanisms and approaches to policy and practice in the context of Asia, while the second part examines Hong Kong students’ transitions to post-school life and provides an account of issues and challenges the government and individual schools experience in terms of structural support for both mainstream and special-needs students.

Education. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Professional & Vocational Education. --- School-to-work transition. --- High school graduates --- College graduates --- Economic conditions. --- Employment. --- Graduates, High school --- High schools --- School-to-careers programs --- School-to-work programs --- Transition, School-to-work --- Career education --- Education, Cooperative --- Alumni and alumnae --- International education . --- Professional education. --- Vocational education. --- Education, Vocational --- Vocational training --- Work experience --- Education --- Technical education --- Education, Professional --- Education, Higher --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- History

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EDUCATION / Higher. --- High school graduates --- Experiential learning. --- Non-formal education. --- Gap years. --- Years, Gap --- Life cycle, Human --- Non-formal education --- Self-culture --- Informal education --- Informal learning --- Nonformal education --- Adult education --- Educational innovations --- Occupational training --- Gap years --- Prior learning --- Experience-based learning --- Learning, Experiential --- Experience --- Learning --- Active learning --- Graduates, High school --- High schools --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Alumni and alumnae --- Education