The He Man Woman Haters
Divining Rod
"Divining rod." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2009): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 5 Oct. 2010.
Hyman, Ray, and Elizabeth G. Cohen. "WATER-WITCHING IN THE UNITED STATES." American Sociological Review 22.6 (1957): 719-724. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 5 Oct. 2010.
High School Drop Out
Question: Is the high school drop-out rate better worse or about the same as it was in the mid twentieth Century?
Answer:
1) High school completion rates are almost always lower than the official estimates including those that states have reported to the U.S. Department of Education under the requirements of "No Child Left Behind" bill and the state estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics. The author's analysis confirmed the estimates of other researchers. He made estimates for 1990 using the same approach and found a completion rate of 72 percent for that year.
Barton, Paul E. "The Dropout Problem: Losing Ground." Educational Leadership 63.5 (2006): 14-18. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 6 Oct. 2010.
2) Each year, approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school, more than half of whom are from minority groups. 71 percent of all students graduate from high school - 2009
