K-12 Dropouts and Graduation Rates

Parent: The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles

eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
58p2c3wp	Why Students Drop Out of School and What Can Be Done	1,407	436	306	386	279
4x44w1qh	Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis	373	105	110	64	94
0hx1v4cw	Revisiting the Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education: Lessons about Dropout Research and Dropout Prevention	189	46	24	29	90
4ps2m2rf	The Dropout/Graduation Crisis Among American Indian and Alaska Native Students	187	56	22	22	87
3z4802zq	Dropping Out of High School: The Role of School Organization and Structure	184	54	31	36	63
4h66294m	Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in California	174	21	5	30	118
48m0122w	Connecting Entrance and Departure: The Transition to Ninth Grade and High School Dropout	156	51	32	22	51
0g10k4nz	Essential Components of High School Dropout Prevention Reforms	144	40	25	29	50
9rw5h1c8	Proposition 227 in California: A Long-Term Appraisal of Its Impact on Language Minority Student Achievement	141	32	14	23	72
2jf1g204	High School Dropout, Race-Ethnicity and Social Background from the 1970s to the 1990s	137	56	14	22	45
5w70228v	Do Higher State Test Scores In Texas Make For Better High School Outcomes?	126	24	14	41	47
09h2q55p	The National Dropout Data Collection System: Assessing Consistency	125	26	15	26	58
6wx120pt	How Many Central City High Schools Have A Severe Dropout Problem, Where Are They Located, and Who Attends Them? Initial Estimates Using the Common Core of Data	121	35	9	22	55
0ds627zn	Dropouts in the South: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis	118	25	3	24	66
20p0b765	Are Dropout Decisions Related to Safety Concerns, Social Isolation, and Teacher Disparagement?	113	19	9	34	51
26m5j3dr	Easing the Transition to High School: An Investigation of Reform Practices to Promote Ninth Grade Success	103	25	14	22	42
40s4j031	Career Academy Impacts for Students at High Risk of Dropping Out	90	27	6	18	39
2902g0q3	The Grade Retention Fallacy	81	21	8	18	34
30j264wj	Making School Completion Integral to School Purpose and Design	77	13	19	15	30
26g6r1f5	Making Do With Less: Interpreting the Evidence from Recent Federal Evaluations of Dropout-Prevention Programs	64	15	7	9	33

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