scholarly journals The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A Jacob ◽  
Lars Lefgren
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Grade Retention ◽  
High School Completion ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Promotion Policy ◽  
School Completion ◽  
Low Achieving Students ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Causal Impact

Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade to allow them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed academically. In this paper, we use plausibly exogenous variation in retention generated by a test-based promotion policy to assess the causal impact of grade retention on high school completion. We find that retention among younger students does not affect the likelihood of high school completion, but that retaining low-achieving eighth grade students in elementary school substantially increases the probability that these students will drop out of high school. (JEL I21, J13)

scholarly journals State-level high school completion rates: Concepts, measures, and trends.

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Robert Warren
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Grade Retention ◽  
State Level ◽  
High School Completion ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Cohort Size ◽  
School Completion ◽  
National Rate ◽  
Review State

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. Existing measures based on the Current Population Survey are conceptually imperfect and statistically unreliable. Measures based on Common Core Data (CCD) dropout information are unavailable for many states and have different conceptual weaknesses. Existing measures based on CCD enrollment and completion data are systematically biased by migration, changes in cohort size, and/or grade retention. The new CCD-based measure described here is considerably less biased, performs differently in empirical analyses, and gives a different picture of the dropout situation across states and over time.

The Timing of a First Birth and High School Completion

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn M. Upchurch ◽  
James McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Completion ◽  
First Birth ◽  
School Completion

Opportunity and high school completion

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bickel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Completion ◽  
School Completion

Contrary to Breastfeeding Initiation, High School Completion is Associated with Lower Cardiovascular Risk after Intrauterine Exposure to Diabetes

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. S58
Author(s):  
Laetitia Guillemette ◽  
Brandy Wicklow ◽  
Elizabeth A. Sellers ◽  
Allison Dart ◽  
Garry X. Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
High School Completion ◽  
Breastfeeding Initiation ◽  
School Completion ◽  
Intrauterine Exposure
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