...most high school students graduate within the United States, some millions do not, resulting in a weaker job market and lower pay for these individuals and a dropout number that has fluctuated over the years. Data has shown most of these dropouts are Hispanic (United States Census Bureau) and the median pay of high school and college graduates is significantly more than that of high school dropouts (United States Census Bureau.) It is important steps are taken now to prevent high-school students from dropping out, such as using the solution-focused principles and techniques program because, while data has shown various ethnicities drop out of high school in all states, all of these individuals are limited in their career options. It...
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...Alliance Ulaanbataar, Mongolia All rights reserved ©2005 Mongolian Drop Out Study THE MONGOLIAN DROP OUT STUDY By Mercedes del Rosario International Educational Policy Studies Teachers College, Columbia University Research Associate, Drop Out Project In Collaboration with Battsetseg Donrov Officer Division of Monitoring, Evaluation and Coordination Ministry of Science, Education and Culture of Mongolia Bayartsetseg Bayarsaihan Assistant Faculty of Social Science Mongolian State University of Education Bolormaa Tsetsegee Unit Manager Needs Assessment Mongolian Educational Alliance Dorjnamjin Batmonkh Assistant Researcher National Center for Non-Formal and Distance Education Mongolia Tumendelger Sengedorj (M.A) Lecturer, Sociology Mongolian State University of Education Tsentsenbileg Tseveen (Ph.D) Researcher Mongolian Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy Enkhbold Delger (M.A) Researcher Mongolian Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law 2 Mongolian Drop Out Study Table of Contents Acknowledgement Executive Summary List of Acronyms/Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures List of Appendices 1. Introduction and Framework 1.1. Project Description and Rationale 1.2. Legislation, Regulations and Structures 1.3. Administration and Management of the Education System 1.4. Organization of the Education System 1.5. Structure of the Education System in Mongolia 1.5.1. Pre-School Education 1.5.2. Primary Education 1.5.3. Secondary Education 1.6....
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...underscored that the bigger problem in the education situation is the increasing dropout rate in elementary levels as reported by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). Based on the 2006 to 2007 NSCB statistics, the dropout rate increased from 8.6 percent to 9 percent, far from the 2006 target of decreasing it to 5.5 percent and 2009 target of 4.3 percent. “A targeted program that will identify causes and solutions for high dropout rates is urgently needed to reverse this alarming trend,” Badcock said. Badcock cited that case of the province of Sulu wherein only 62 percent of the children there are enrolled in public elementary schools, way behind the national average of 81.7 percent. “Efforts to promote primary education enrolment should be concentrated in identifiable high-priority regions such as Sulu,” Badcock pointed out. In addition, the UN linked poverty to the unemployment problem which makes poverty reduction and endangered goal. UN records...
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...FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ DECISION TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL A Research Paper Presented to Center for Social Development Research Cor Jesu College Digos City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For Academic Research by HERMOGENES C. ORION, JR, Ed.D ERIKKA JUNE D. FOROSUELO, DM-HRM JEAN M. CAVALIDA, MA, RGC March 2013 COR JESU COLLEGE Sacred Heart Ave., Digos City 8002 Davao del Sur Philippines APPROVAL SHEET ------------------------------------------------- As a requirement for Academic Research, this research paper entitled: FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ DECISION TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL has been prepared and submitted by HERMOGENES C. ORION, JR., ERIKKA JUNE D. FOROSUELO, JEAM M. CAVALIDA ------------------------------------------------- APPROVED by the Oral Examination Committee DR.MARIA ELENA MORALES DR. LETICIA CANSANCIO Panel Member Panel Member DR. ALEX D. NIEZ Chairperson ------------------------------------------------- Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Academic Research. DR. ALEX D. NIEZ College Dean MAY 2013 ii ACKNOWLEDGMENT ...
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...Institute of Management Studies and Research, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India. ABSTRACT Education has been made too easy for the students so that more and more students can enter into the scope of education system of the country. The announcements like abolishing compulsory CBSE board exams for class 10th from the session 2010-11, introduction of grading system, the passage of Right of Children to free and Compulsory Education Bill, reservation policies etc. are a few among them. Now the question arises as to what extent such efforts in the field of education have succeeded in different states of the country. Haryana is the state with a contribution of 3.7% in the total GDP of India. This present study will throw light on the education system of Haryana, with a comparative eye on its neighbouring states. An analysis of the educational achievements of these states from different angles will help the experts and the researchers to know how far we have gone in achieving our targets and what needs to be done. Along with this, a comparison of the literacy rates and literates of these states has also been made. This paper is descriptive in nature, based on the data collected from different websites of ministry as well as reports of planning commission. KEYWORDS: Drop-out rate, Education, Gross Enrolment Ratio, Haryana, Literacy Rate. ______________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The present day education system...
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... OPTIONS Program Combating Child Trafficking and Exploitation through Education by Richard Geeves (VIAfilm) World Education UNICEF 28 September 2007 1 CONTENTS Tables 3 Links to documentary video 4 Acronyms 5 Foreword 7 A note on the OPTIONS evaluation report and documentary video Executive Summary 8 1. General background, evaluation method and coverage 18 2. Identification of vulnerable children 25 3. Improved formal education opportunities 29 Scholarships, Life skills, Student Support Network, Improved quality of teaching and learning, improved professional support to teachers 4. Improved non-formal education opportunities 43 School re-entry, My Better Future, NFE programs for out-of-school youth 5. Tracking and follow up of vulnerable children 52 Formal education, Non-formal education, Referral children 6. Impact on children and their families 56 Impact on children, Impact on families 7. Impact on communities, society and local institutions 60 Community attitudes to girls and education, child protection, Commune Councils, CEFAC/CWCCs 8. Capacity building, Cost effectiveness, Advocacy, Accountability/feedback, Sustainability 65 9. Findings and recommendations 73 Interviews and observations conducted 81 References 83 Attachments Attachment 1 Attachment 2 Attachment 3 Attachment 4 Attachment 5 Attachment 6 85 Terms of Reference for...
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...a family of four is $23,050.00 and that guideline compares to a median U.S. household income of $50,054.00 (Breslow, 2012). Many of these single mothers living in low income have low education. Nationally, over 80 percent of families headed by a parent without a high school diploma lives in poverty, compared to 54 percent of families headed by a parent a high school diploma, and only 22 percent of families headed by a parent with at least some college education. Single mothers live in poverty because they lack higher education and are products of poverty themselves. Lack of Education Thirty years ago less than twenty percent of birth occurred to single women. Today that number has doubled. At one time race was a huge factor, however. Today, education is a key factor. In 1990, ten percent of birth occurred to white single mothers with some sort of post-secondary education, however, they did not have a degree. Today, that number has tripled. For women with a high-school diploma or less, the number is sixty percent. The number is eight percent for women with a college degree of any race (Forbes, 2012). Education is a very important factor in keeping the number of unwed mothers at a low number. Educating young...
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...It is my personal opinion that the school dropout age should not be lower to fourteen instead of sixteen. If anything, students shouldn't be able to drop out at all. Lowering the age that students are able to drop out would not change anything. There would still be the same lack of safety, drop-outs, and low achievement scores. If anything, this would increase those. If the dropout age were lowered, it would just cause students looking forward to dropping out to start not caring about school sooner than if the age was sixteen. If that is not enough to convince you, here are three more compelling reasons why lowering the dropout age from sixteen to fourteen is not a good idea. First of all, as the world around us and our economy evolve around us, the working field continuously grows more competitive by the second. Most careers you need even more education past your high school diploma. So how do you expect people with only middle school educations to prosper and contribute to our society? They can't. If they are lucky, the best job they will receive will only pay them minimum wage. To further the growth of our society and economy, we need determined members of society with strong educational backgrounds with the will to do so....
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...Grade Failure, Drop out and Subsequent School Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data Marco Manacorda This version: November 2006 QMUL, CEP and STICERD (LSE) and CEPR This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on about 100,000 Uruguayan students in public non-vocational Junior High school (grades 7-9) to identify the causal effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity in promotion rates induced by a rule that establishes that a pupil missing more than 25 days during the school year will automatically fail that grade I show that grade failure leads to substantial drop out and lower educational attainment after 4 to 5 years since the time when failure first occurred. Complementary evidence based on a change in the regime of grade promotion provides additional support for this conclusion. Keywords: grade retention, school drop out, age-grade distortion, regression discontinuity. JEL codes: I21, I22, J20 I am grateful to Jerome Adda, David Card, Thomas Lemieux, Alan Manning, Guy Michael, Justin McCrary, Enrico Moretti, Barbara Petrongolo, Tommaso Valletti, Steve Pischke, Miguel Urquiola and seminar participants at UC Berkeley, LSE, Paris-Jourdan, University of Toulouse, IGIER-Bocconi, the Universidad de la Republica (Montevideo) and the Gerencia de Planeamiento y Evaluación de la Gestión Educativa de ANEP for many helpful comments and suggestions. I am also grateful to Veronica Amarante...
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...yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide."- US President Barack Obama Education is a fundamental need of an individual to cope with life. And it is a basic but a very important matter that each and everyone should have. Education makes a man complete. In addition, the education is the principle means by which society carries out its national objective. And its purpose is to foster the development of each individual so that he may achieve the most satisfying life of which he is capable (Mcneil 1998). Education changes an individual. Having knowledge, an individual will have the courage to do anything. Education is the main factor to mold individuals to become what they want. It is true that schools are the primary source in having a formal education. But, not everyone can attend school due to different reasons. There are unfortunate children that could not afford to go to school not only because they are poor, but there are also other reasons that they consider in going to school. In 2009, Sallie Mae discovered that 84% of college students indicated they need a big amount of money for their education. In addition to that, Noel Levitz (2009) reported and concluded that only 46.4% of college students claimed that they had enough financial resources to finish college. Hossler (2006) cited that students have been dropping out for ever since, formal schooling has started. Since dropouts adversely...
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...High School Dropouts Every nine seconds, an American high school student becomes a dropout, that's approximately one in four students who enter high school as freshmen and fail to earn a diploma four years later. (Dropout Rates, 2012) America has lost sight of the single most important aspect to our future, their children’s education. The issue of high school dropouts was selected because children entering into their teenage years have a huge task in front of them, the completion of high school is not an option it is a MUST. However, this is not the case in many homes across America. American high school students may think about their future, but are high school and college completion included in those thoughts? Students that feel that they are ready for college are those who are prepared and figure they will graduate high school and succeed. What is stopping the other 30% from knowing? What are all the factors that stop these children from completing high school and then moving on to college? The questions that must be asked here are: 1. Why students leave high school before completion? 2. Who/What is to blame? 3. What social policies keep students in school? 4. How to help prevent dropouts? The Problem With every 1 in 4 high school students dropping out, the problem seems to be larger than anticipated. High school dropouts create a slew of problems, socially, locally and nationally. “High school dropouts commit about 75 percent of crimes in the United...
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...learn more about. So I happily watched the documentary and quickly whipped out a first draft (rough rough draft) without even really having to think about it- the words just poured out. However, when writing my real rough draft, I tried to focus a bit more on the rhetorical appeals. My revision process on Inquiry Two was much more rigorous than my typical revision process. At my meeting with Bridget for my conference on my rough draft of Inquiry 2, she had me read my paper aloud. Reading it out loud made me realize how focused the paper really was on my thoughts and my opinions on the topic of the documentary. There was way too much emphasis on my thoughts on the public school systems of America, and not nearly enough rhetorical analysis of the documentary. I wrote what felt like millions of drafts and printed them all out and scribbled all over them. I also used Bridget as resource and took her ideas and comments into considering my final draft. Overall, I tried to focus the paper much more on a rhetorical analysis of the film instead of my own opinions on the issue (those can come in Inquiry Three!). Waiting for “Superman” Waiting for “Superman” examines one of the most heated debates in today’s political society: the question of what to do about public school systems in America. Most of the public schools in the country are funded based on local property taxes. This system leaves make schools in low- income areas deprived of the funding necessary to provide an adequate...
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...Curtin Business School School of Management CURTIN UNIVERSITY Singapore Campus 9797 Industrial Relations in Asia pacific region 302 Trimester 2014 Assessment 2: Individual report Name: Jeremy Tan Wen Cheng (17329381) Origin: Singapore Qualifications: Dip in Engineering, Current: Bach in Commerce International Business Date: 19 September 2014 Words: 2965 (Excluding Executive Summary, In text Citation) Question: Research, Analyse and Debate Exists a linkage between the exploitation of children, as a source of labour, and globalisation in both developing and industrialised countries? Table of Content Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………...3 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………... 5 2. Discussion……………………………………………………………………………. 5 2.1 Definition: What is child labour? ..................................................................... 5 2.2 Definition: What is globalisation? ………………………………………….... 6 2.3 Difference between developing and industrialised countries……………........ 6 2.3.1 Facts and background of India and Germany ………………………………... 7 2.3.2 ILO Convention no. 138 …………………………………………………….. 8 2.3.3 Perception of child labour in society ………………………………………… 8 2.3.4 Laws and how they are executed……………………………………………... 9 2.4.1 School attendance rate ……………………………………………………… 10 2.4.1 School drop-out rate ………..………………………………………………. 10 2.5.1 Structural change and the state of economy………………………………… 11 2.5.2 Digression to historical development...
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... | | | |Vanessa Kittle | | | | | Students today need more discipline due to parent leniency; therefore, the students are acting out in their schools to make up for the...
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...VIGAN CITY, ILOCOS SUR prepared and submitted by Genafril Mae A. Benzon, Danna Marie Tabuada, Jaidee M. Rosario, Kim L.Umnas, Reynaldo Deocales Jr., Virgette Lavanar, Karen Jaramillo, Ruth Jane Castro in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the 1st Semester of Statistics I, have been reviewed and recommended for acceptance and approval for final defense. Novie Ada Urbis, MAT-Eng Critic Rhea Benzon, MAME Statistics Instructor APPROVAL SHEET Approved by the Panel of Examiner on final defense with the grade of___________. Gilbert Valdez, MBA Panel member Mr. Erwin Tolbe Coordinator for Research, CBAA Chairman Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the 1st Semester of Statistics I school year 2012-2013 Rhea Benzon, MAME Statistics Instructor Date: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researchers wish to express their sincerest...
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