Article: DATA CITES DEPTH OF DROPOUT CRISIS.(MAIN)

Article: Transfers inflated dropout rate, Armstrong district ...
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  October 31, 2007 ;     578 words ...Johns Hopkins University acknowledged ... which found it had a dropout rate of at least 40 percent ... explanation that even Johns Hopkins found plausible. The ... a spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins' Center for Social ...

Transcript: Analysis: Rising high school dropout rate
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  April 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Rising high school dropout rate Host: JUAN WILLIAMS ... Rights Project, the dropout rate was identified as the ... before graduation. The dropout rate for minority students ... Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, located ...

Article: Progress On Dropout Rate Stalls; Critics Say Test ...
The Washington Post;  March 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... you see an extremely disturbing pattern," Orfield said. Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that much of the nation ... concluded that the changes have done little to lessen the dropout rate in cities such as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso ...

Article: High school dropout rate remains high
Oakland Tribune;  October 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... equal opportunity?" asks Bob Balfanz, the researcher at Johns Hopkins University who defines such a school as a "dropout factory ... to an analysis of Education Department data conducted by Johns Hopkins. That's 12 percent of all such schools, no more than ...

Article: Feds Move to Trim School Dropout Rate
AP Online;  October 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the land of equal opportunity?" asks Bob Balfanz, the Johns Hopkins researcher who coined the term "dropout factory." There ... to an analysis of Education Department data conducted by Johns Hopkins for The Associated Press. That's 12 percent of all such ...

Article: Study: counseling at critical stage may cut dropout ...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education;  October 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... move from elementary to their high school freshman year, a Johns Hopkins University senior researcher told attendees last month during ... scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, said that analysis of the 2,000 high schools ...

Article: Dropout rate at top of problems list
Post-Tribune (IN);  April 23, 2006 ;     685 words ... ... complete their program, we'd be better off, but we don't," said Adam Falk, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Some students, for example, have family, financial or health issues that make it impossible to stay in a ...