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Title:  Statistics in Brief: "At-Risk" Eighth-Graders Four Years Later
Description: This short Statistics in Brief uses NELS:88 Base Year data (eighth grade) and Second Follow-up data four years later (twelfth grade) to examine high school outcomes in order to determine which are affected by "risk factors" identified in students at the beginning of high school. Outcomes examined are tested achievement, high school, graduation and rank in class as well as social and behavioral outcomes.
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Cover Date: July 1995
Web Release: July 3, 1995
Print Release: July 3, 1995
Publication #: NCES 95736
General Ordering Information
Center/Program: NCES
Authors: Patricia Green, Leslie Scott, NORC
Type of Product: Statistics in Brief
Survey/Program Areas: National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
Questions: For questions about the content of this Statistics in Brief, please contact:
Jeffrey A. Owings.
 
 
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