dropout rates

(noun)

Dropout rates are a measurement of the proportion of students who drop out, that is, who leave a school for practical reasons, necessities, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.

Related Terms

  • minority

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.
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