State-Level High School Completion Rates: Concepts, Measures, and Trends

Creator

John Robert Warren

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

December 2005

Abstract

Since the mid 1970s the national rate at which incoming 9th graders have completed high school has fallen slowly but steadily; this is also true in 41 states. In 2002, about three in every four students who might have completed high school actually did so; in some states this figure is substantially lower. In this paper I review state-level measures of high school completion rates and describe and validate a new measure that reports these rates for 1975 through 2002. ...

Keywords

High school dropouts, Common Core of Data

Extent

38

Volume

13

Issue

51

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Warren, J. R. (2005). State-level high school completion rates: Concepts, measures, and trends. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 13(51). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n51.

Identifier

E11-00473

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Recommended Citation

Warren, John Robert, "State-Level High School Completion Rates: Concepts, Measures, and Trends" (2005). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 187.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/187