[Lmresearch] New Alliance data tool--High Schools in the United States: How does your local high school measure up?

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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           High Schools in the United States: How does your local high school measure up?

            A new tool on the Alliance website allows users to compare the performance of high schools in their area with other high schools from around the state. Based on "promoting power," an indicator developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the database provides 2003 and 2004 data for high schools, searchable by state, congressional district, or zip code. 

            Because official "dropout" statistics neither accurately count nor report the vast number of students who do not graduate from high school, promoting power, can serve as a warning sign - a "check engine light" indicator - because it consistently compares the number of seniors enrolled in a high school to the number of 9th graders enrolled in the high school four years earlier, and provides a measure of how efficiently and effectively high schools promote their students from grade to grade. Schools with high percentages of successful passage to the next grade are described as having "high promoting power." Alternatively, schools that struggle to keep students in attendance and experience high rates of dropouts have "low promoting power."

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