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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
卷 41, 期 3, 页码 709-730出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.11.014
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High school completion process; Life course; High school dropouts; Educational inequality; Academic performance; 9th Grade shock
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Retrospective questions on educational attainment in national surveys and censuses tend to over-estimate high school graduation rates by 15-20% points relative to administrative records. Administrative data on educational enrollment are, however, only available at the aggregate level (state, school district, and school levels) and the recording of inter-school transfers are generally incomplete. With access to linked individual-level administrative records from a very large West Coast metropolitan school district we track patterns of high school attrition and on-time high school graduation of individual students. Even with adjustments for the omission of out-of-district transfers (estimates of omission are presented), the results of this study show that failure in high school, as indexed by retention and attrition, are almost as common as on-time high school graduation. In addition to the usual risk factors of disadvantaged background, we find that the 9th grade shock-an unpredicted decline in academic performance upon entering high school-is a key mechanism behind the continuing crisis of high school attrition. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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