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Over the last few school years, Philadelphia has had a double digit drop-out rate. During the 2020-2021 school year, the dropout rate was 14%. In 2019-2020, the dropout rate was 16.3% and in 2018-2019 the dropout rate was 21.3%.
To understand the issue in full, it is important to understand some circumstances that exist in China, including the difference between urban and rural areas, the state of the minority populations, the Chinese education system, and Chinese family culture.
Some parents choose to bring their children with them to urban areas; however, because many of these parents are moving without applying for a change in hukou registration, they are doing so illegally. This process leaves approximately 210 million rural migrants living outside of their hukou who do not have access to pension, healthcare, public education, and other social services because they are not registered in the new city.57 An estimated 20 million of these individuals are children between the ages of 6 and 14.58 Children are only guaranteed free compulsory education in the hukou that they are registered in, so it is difficult for migrant children to attend public school in urban areas. This is made more difficult by the fact that schools only receive enough funding for the number of children who are registered in their hukou.59 While some private companies have started their own schools for migrant children, they are not stable or guaranteed, which leaves migrant children with inconsistent opportunities for education.60
The education gap between the urban and rural areas contributes to an overall inequality gap between the regions.81 The Chinese see education as a means to achieving status as a first world country.82 However, as more students drop out of school in rural areas they are unprepared to enter the higher-skilled labor force needed to increase the value of the Chinese economy and close the inequality gap between urban and rural regions.83 Living in rural areas is often less desirable due to the less-developed infrastructure and fewer amenities when compared with urban areas, resulting in many professionals staying in urban areas following completion of their higher education.
Many countries have used or are currently using short-term teacher programs in under-resourced areas to fill gaps where no teachers are present and to give students role models for educational achievement.93 Central and western areas of China are prime candidates to receive these recruited teachers, as many instructors leave these areas in pursuit of better opportunities in urban areas.94 Both civil and government organizations in China have begun to look to short-term teacher programs as a way to encourage knowledge and skill sharing to youth living in rural areas in order to decrease the likelihood of dropout.
Earlier studies have found significant associations between sociodemographic factors and enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana. These studies were mainly household surveys in relatively rural areas with high incidence of poverty. To expand the scope of existing evidence, this paper examines policy design factors associated with enrolment and dropout of the scheme in an urban poor district using routine secondary data.
Over the study period, population coverage of the scheme increased from 55% to 63% between 2014 and 2015 and declined to 40% in September 2016 (Fig. 1a). Trends in enrolment also show that total enrolment (existing enrolment) and new enrolment assumed a downward trajectory after the base year (2014) (Fig. 1b). Existing enrolment increased by 16% from 73,541 members in 2014 to 85,591 members in 2015, and then declined by 34% to 56,592 members in September 2016. Likewise, new enrolment increased by 6% from 39,532 members in 2014 to 41,935 members in 2015, and then declined by 60% to 16,764 members in September 2016. These downward trends resulted in an increase in dropouts by 41% (29,885) between 2014 and 2015 and 53% (45,764) between 2015 and September 2016.
This study examined individual characteristics and policy design features that influence NHIS enrolment and dropout in an urban poor district of Ghana. The findings show that the number of people taking up new membership in the NHIS are declining and existing members are increasingly dropping out of the scheme; consequently, population coverage has assumed a downward trend. Sociodemographic factors such as being a male, indigent, informal sector employee, social security contributor or pensioner, or an aged (70+ years) is associated with NHIS enrolment and dropout. However, there are no substantial variations in the sociodemographic factors associated with enrolment in each year of the study period.
One significant implication of our findings is that the high dropout rate of the NHIS, coupled with the large number of members exempted from paying premium to the scheme, has the potential to pose huge financial burden on the scheme, which could threaten its sustainability. For instance, this phenomenon could reduce risk pooling and financial risk protection for members of the scheme, particularly the poor and vulnerable, and eventually derail progress towards attainment of UHC. Policy makers need to enforce the mandatory enrolment provision in the law governing operations of the scheme. This can be done by making enrolment in the scheme a prerequisite for obtaining certain services such as driving licence and employment in both public and private institutions, as is the case for enrolment into secondary and tertiary educational institutions in the country after one obtains offer of admission.
The state ofWisconsin has one of the highest four year graduation rates in the nation, but deep disparities among student subgroups remain. To address this the state has created the Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS), a predictive model of student dropout risk for students in grades six through nine. The Wisconsin DEWS is in use statewide and currently provides predictions on the likelihood of graduation for over 225,000 students. DEWS represents a novel statistical learning based approach to the challenge of assessing the risk of non-graduation for students and provides highly accurate predictions for students in the middle grades without expanding beyond mandated administrative data collections. Similar dropout early warning systems are in place in many jurisdictions across the country. Prior research has shown that in many cases the indicators used by such systems do a poor job of balancing the trade off between correct classification of likely dropouts and false-alarm (Bowers et al., 2013). Building on this work, DEWS uses the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) metric to identify the best possible set of statistical models for making predictions about individual students. This paper describes the DEWS approach and the software behind it, which leverages the open source statistical language R (R Core Team, 2013). As a result DEWS is a flexible series of software modules that can adapt to new data, new algorithms, and new outcome variables to not only predict dropout, but also impute key predictors as well. The design and implementation of each of these modules is described in detail as well as the open-source R package, EWStools, that serves as the core of DEWS (Knowles, 2014).
While subtle differences existed between the urban, suburban, and rural prediction formulas, the variables selected produced prediction formulas with accuracy rates of 88.1% overall, 85.7% for urban, 94.2% for suburban, and 97.7% for rural students. Total retentions and passing the competency tests on time had the largest unstandardized canonical discriminate function coefficients in the overall, rural, and urban prediction formulas. Administrative hearings and passing the state competency tests on time variables were found to have positive impacts on students staying in school.
The researcher's policy recommendations are that once activated by triggering events, the screening process should be by a site-based early intervention team which can use the research generated discriminated function formulas to evaluate the severity of dropout risk, prescribe the appropriate type of education program from a continuum of services, and develop individualized alternative education plans with long term, short term, and exit goals.
With dropouts failing to pass the state competency tests on time at a rate five times that of non-dropouts and the increased pressure on schools that their students perform well on mandated competency testing will amplify the demand for early detection of potential dropouts with additional, diverse, and more individualized dropout prevention programs.
1 India 25.6 26 25.8 6.6 7.3 6.9 4.4 4.4 4.2 dropout rate estimates based on official 2 Andhra Pradesh 27.4 27.2 27.3 10.8 10.5 10.6 4.4 4.9 4.0 3 Arunachal Pradesh 23.4 23.3 23.4 7.5 8.9 8.2 3.1 2.5 4.0
A more reliable way of calculating the 10 Jammu and dropout rate would be to look at the Kashmir 27 29.2 27.9 4.0 5.4 4.6 3.8 3.8 3.6 11 Karnataka 20.8 21.5 21.5 7.9 8.8 8.3 3.1 3.1 3.0 proportion of ever-enrolled children in the 12 Kerala 18.5 19.7 19.1 1.3 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.0 1.3 15-19 age group who have not completed 13 Madhya Pradesh 19.3 18.1 18.8 6.9 9.4 7.9 4.0 4.4 3.6 14 Maharashtra 19.6 19.9 19.7 5.8 6.9 6.3 2.9 3.3 3.5 their primary level of education. This can 15 Manipur 19.6 20.2 19.9 4.6 11.2 7.7 0.5 0.0 1.3 16 Meghalaya 30.6 30.9 30.7 9.8 6.3 8.2 2.6 1.5 4.0
estimate of the all-India dropout rate in Note: The NSS-based estimates in the second panel have been calculated by the author. In thesecalculations the dropout rate is simply the proportion of ever enrolled 15-19 year olds who have
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