Student Disappearance in the Greater Houston Area
The Houston Chronicle has a guest blog by me today that looks at the number of 3rd grade students who took the TAKS test in the spring of 2003 who are still enrolled in school in 2011.
See http://blog.chron.com/schoolzone/2011/10/where-are-all-the-third-graders-now/
Below are some more details on the numbers I discuss in the blog. Looking at the number of students who remain in the Texas public education system is important in that many of those students who disappear simply drop out of school. And, as we will see, we can actually predict who is at-risk of disappearing/dropping out as early as the third grade.
But first, a quick note on the methodology. The basis for the analysis is individual student TAKS test taking data
