Higher standards, more dropouts? Evidence within and across time

By D. Lillard, Philip Decicca. 2001

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The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings (2003, unknown): “Lillard and DeCicca (2001) focus on the effects of higher graduation standards, defined as the number of courses that students must take in order to graduate, rather than grading standards.”
Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance (2006, background): “The design of improved remediation for the dropout risk ostensibly created by exit exams could benefit from evidence of such grade-by-grade risks.”
Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis (2002, result): “Jacobs (2001) found similar results for low-achieving students in Chicago; and Lillard and DeCicca (2001) found that graduation requirements could increase dropout rates.”