{"id":4575,"date":"2012-02-18T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T01:48:15","slug":"data-to-explore-implementation-of-federal-graduation-rate-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4575","title":{"rendered":"Data to explore implementation of federal graduation rate definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/gradebook\/content\/graduation-rates-pinellas-hillsborough-pasco-plummet-under-new-formula\">Florida has released some data on high school graduation rates<\/a>, using the new federal definition that requires high schools to be responsible for dropouts who immediately enroll in GED programs (previously, those dropouts were deleted from the state&#8217;s official longitudinal rate which had been following 9th graders through graduation or attrition). This data provide an opportunity to compare the accuracy of various proxy measures a number of researchers have explored over the past decade. Until now, it has been impossible to compare the accuracy of rates to the ideal longitudinal graduation rate. The new federal definition is close to that ideal&#8211;not perfect for a variety of reasons, but pretty good and better than a number of the proxy measures. I have had my concerns about the proxy measures, but now we have something solid to use.<\/p>\n<p>So can we use the latest year&#8217;s data? No: the 2010-11 data cannot (yet) be compared with the Common Core of Data variables for Florida&#8217;s county-wide school districts, because the Common Core of Data (CCD) is not available for 2010-11 (and diploma numbers won&#8217;t be available until the 2011-12 data is released &#8212; raw graduation numbers lag by a year). But I found Florida&#8217;s data for the new-definition rates for 2003-2009 (embedded in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/eias\/eiaspubs\/word\/FedGradRate-1011.doc\">the Word document describing the new rate<\/a>) and put those together with relevant information from <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/ccd\/bat\/\">the CCD<\/a> for Florida counties from 1998-99 (the fall of 1998 would be when the on-time members of the 2003 graduating class would have been in 8th grade) through the latest year available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FL-grad-rates-2003-2009-and-CCD-FL-data-1998-through-2010.xls\">Here is the spreadsheet<\/a>. Data are in the first worksheet, and information on how to read the variable names is in the second. Go to town, folks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida has released some data on high school graduation rates, using the new federal definition that requires high schools to be responsible for dropouts who immediately enroll in GED programs (previously, those dropouts were deleted from the state&#8217;s official longitudinal rate which had been following 9th graders through graduation or attrition). This data provide an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-florida","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-1bN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}