I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence. I begin by pointing out the strengths and limitations of existing data sources. I then describe six striking patterns in graduation rates. They include stagnation over the last three decades of the twentieth century, ...

The graduation project is a cornerstone of the academic life, and professional career, of many students, and so whatever time is invested in such a project is truly worthwhile. Furthermore, students’ extending themselves beyond their limitations in this endeavor is essential to enhancing the concepts they learned in previous courses. However, managing these projects poses real challenges for th...

Hodrick and Prescott (1997) proposed a smoothing method for economic time series that is very similar to graduation, it is usually known as the H-P method. They acknowledged that this method is equivalent to graduation methods and that it had been in use among actuaries. The literature on smoothing methods based on their approach grew separately from the graduation literature, due to the useful...

OBJECTIVE Get to know the nursing undergraduates perception, from a public university in southern Brazil, on the inclusion of the theme violence against women in the curriculum and about that thematic approach during graduation. METHODOLOGY Descriptive exploratory qualitative research, made with 18 students of Nursing Graduation in Federal de Santa Maria University. Semi-structured interview ...

1 Improving the nation's high school graduation rate has remained an elusive goal for many years. In 1990 the nation's governors and the President of the United States adopted six national education goals, including increasing the high school graduation rate to 90 percent and eliminating the gap in high school graduation rates between minority and non-minority students by the year 2000 (U.S. De...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationships between physical therapy students' motives to become physical therapists and their academic performance. This was investigated by their experience of delayed or non-delayed graduation, and their perceptions of learning in school and internship. [Subjects and Methods] Subjects were 245 physical therapists participating in a newco...

This chapter reports research on evaluative language in English and Spanish consumer-generated reviews on books and movies. Within the Appraisal framework, a contrastive study is carried out on the spans of Graduation embedded in spans of Attitude in 64 reviews. A qualitative analysis, covering a syntactic description of these expressions of Graduation and proposals for doubtful cases, is follo...