Accurately assessing high school graduation rates

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-292

  Mishel, Lawrence ^a   Roy, Joydeep ^a  

^a ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 33846291790     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170608800408     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Graduation Counts: A Report of the National Governors Association Task Force on State High School Graduation Data (Washington, D.C.: National Governors Association, 2005), p. 9, available at www.nga.org.
2. See, for example, Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates (New York: Manhattan Institute, Civic Report No. 48, 2006), available at www.manhattan-institute. org;
3. and Christopher Swanson, Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001 (Washing ton, D.C.: Urban Institute, 2004), available at www.urban.org.
4. "Graduation Rates," Fact Sheet, Alliance for Excellent Education, March 2006, available at www.all4ed.org/publications/ MeasuringGraduationTo MeasureSuccess/GradRatesFactSheet.pdf;
5. "Telling the Whole Truth (Or Not) About High School Graduation," Education Trust, December 2003, available at www2.edtrust.org;
6. and Gary Orfield et al., Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth Are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, 25 February 2004), available at www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu.
7. These census data include all forms of completion, including GEDs. However, the substantial increase in total completion cannot be significantly attributable to the rise in GEDs during this period.
8. Carolyn J. Hill and Harry Holzer, "Labor Market Experiences and Transitions to Adulthood," paper presented at the Conference on the Economics of the Transition to Adulthood, New York, January 2006.
9. Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto, The State of Working America 2006/2007 (Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, forthcoming), Table 3.16.
10. George J. Borjas and Lawrence F. Katz, "The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States," Working Paper No. 11281, National Bureau of Education Research, Cambridge, Mass., April 2005.
11. Hill and Holzer, op cit.
12. Calculated from the 2000 decennial census data as the percentage of those immigrating at ages 15 to 17 who completed high school (including GEDs).
13. Jing Miao and Walt Haney, "High School Graduation Rates: Alternative Methods and Implications," Education Policy Analysis Archives. vol. 12, 15 October 2004, available at http://epaa.asu.edu.
14. Cheryl Almeida, Cassius Johnson, and Adria Steinberg, Making Good on a Promise: What Policymakers Can Do to Support the Educational Persistence of Dropouts (Boston: Jobs for the Future, April 2006), available at www.jff.org/JFF_KC_Page.php.
15. Russell W. Rumberger and Scott L. Thomas, "The Distribution of Dropout and Turnover Rates Among Urban and Suburban High Schools," Sociology of Education, vol. 73, 2000, pp. 39-67.
16. Clifford Adelman, The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 2006), available at www.ed.gov.
17. Almeida, Johnson, and Steinberg, op cit.