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Students' engagement and performance in their first year of high school offer strong signals about their prospects for earning a diploma 4 years later. These performance measures can be used to constructon-trackindicators to measure a school's performance and to identify needs of specific students who are at risk of dropping out. This article undertakes a systematic reanalysis of several on-track indicators that predicted the likelihood of graduating with a New York State Regents diploma in New York City. The analytic dataset contains comprehensive longitudinal information for first-time 9th graders who are enrolled in high school between 2001–2002 and 2010–2011. The results show that the current New York City Department of Education indicator (earning 10 or more course credits in the 9th grade) offers a reliable prediction of graduation with a Regents diploma. However, an indicator based on earning 10 or more credits and passing at least one Regents exam represents a substantial improvement on the current indicator and was used as the primary indicator for additional analyses. These analyses showed that this on-track indicator has been reliable and stable across seven cohorts of entering 9th graders. The analysis also shows that the substantial increase in 9th-grade on-track rates offers a reliable foreshadowing of increases in Regents diploma graduation rates in New York City. Additionally, the on-track indicator was highly predictive for a wide range of student subgroups and helps to highlight the prominent gaps in performance along racial, gender, and economic lines. Finally, the article highlights significant variation in on-track rates across schools, that should be investigated in future research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article profiles Harry A. Carpenter, the associate editor of the "Science Education" and "Journal of Chemical Education," who died on April 5, 1942 in Rochester, New York. Carpenter, who was born on February 7, 1878 in New York, did his graduation from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. In 1909, at the request of the New York Board of Education, Carpenter developed a testing laboratory for various materials purchased by the Board. Under his directions, the written technical specifications for paints, varnishes, roofing asphalts, felts, soaps, milk, chocolate milk, and various other types of materials were practiced in the laboratory. In addition to this, Carpenter was also associated with many educational associations, including the New York State Science Teachers Association of which he was president four different times. Carpenter also had a keen interest in visual education.

The article presents information on the plans of State University of New York and City University of New York to raise standards in high schools of New York City and discusses the possible implications of these actions to community colleges. According to the plan, students will have to pass an English Regent Examination to complete their graduation and five Regents to earn a diploma. Though this proves that education is being given its due credit but it may have a detrimental impact on students. The students who are not able to pass the regents may get frustrated, drop out and join community colleges which are open admission institutions, thereby making them overcrowded. This will hinder skill development of students and directly affect English instruction in community colleges. The students at community colleges may also have to go through intensive remediation program, as they will have only one year to complete any college-preparatory work.

The article presents updates on teachers and schools in New York and Brooklyn, New York. The graduation of Mary Parsons Hankey was a highlight of the commencement exercises in the Academy of Music of Columbia University. The commencement week of the University of New York has started. The campus of Cornell University is in gloom because of the death of the wife of the university's former president.

The article focuses on the state of education in Chautauqua, New York. During the commencement exercise of a class of one thousand students, Edward Everett Hale had commented that they already had the key to improve literature. He further said that differences in the kind of discipline, practice and study by students are characteristics of a strong nation.

The article reports that the results of a study into the attitudes of high school students near graduation toward subjects such as nationalism, imperialism and racialism were announced at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. The scoring was developed so that a high mark indicated a tendency toward conservatism. According to professor David H. Kulp, the reliability and validity of the attitude indicator can be employed as a standardized test for the discovery of international attitudes among junior and senior high school students and college students, especially in evaluating quality outcomes of civics, history and social studies, special lectures or school assembly programs.

The article relates the author's experience in attending a graduation ceremony at the Vassar College in New York in 1880. She noticed that the main reception-rooms are crowded with guests at an early hour. She also attended a lawn-party following the graduation. She was informed that two Japanese ladies were included in the graduating class.

The article presents updates on the education sector in New York. One of the issues that were discussed during the July 6, 1888 meeting held by commissioners Webb, Cole and O'Brien was the investigation of a school system. The commencement of New York's Normal College awarded diplomas to almost 300 young women. Senior Professor Henry Drisler of Columbia College was appointed acting president of the college.

The article reports on developments related to education in New York. Thirty-three students have been conferred at the University of Rochester. The commencement ceremonies of the Rutgers Female College were conducted on June 16, 1885. The graduates at the Syracuse University consisted of 29 students from the liberal arts, 11 from fine arts and ten from the medical field.

The article offers news briefs on issues related to university graduation in New York. There were eleven graduates from the Theological Seminary at the commencement ceremony of the Madison University in Hamilton. 30 Bachelor of Arts degrees were conferred to the graduating class of the University of Rochester. Loyalty to the Cornell University in Ithaca was reaffirmed by the Alumni Association of Cornell University during its annual commencement.

The article reports on the decision of the student council in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York to suspend the wearing of caps and gowns of the graduating class of 1918 at their commencement on May 22. The decision of the student council has been made in consideration of the small size of the graduating class and of the unnecessary expense involved.

The article reports that Lewis G. Lloyd handled an unusual contract for the board of education of Yonkers, New York. The said contract was to write the names of students on the diplomas to be awarded at graduation in an imitation of Old English print style. He will be paid on a piece basis to prepare each diploma. It requires an average of five minutes to write one diploma.

The article comments on a student maintenance scheme in New Paltz, New York. It is informed that the scheme keeps a track of students in school and in work after graduation. The scheme covers physical records, professional traits and personality of the students.

The article presents several news briefs related to education in Brooklyn. The annual election of the Teacher's Association favored on Wm. A. Campbell, principal of grammar school, as president of the Association. The graduation at Pratt Institute consists of sixteen graduates, where fourteen of them were in the sterner sex. Joseph C. Hendrix, president of the board of education, was reelected of same position during the election of officers in the annual meeting held on July 5, 1892.

The article reports that Fordham College will return to the old-fashioned type of graduation this coming college commencement exercise in June 1938. The commencement exercises will set them apart from those of the other schools and colleges of Fordham University in New York. Authorities and students had long believed the need of a more personal ceremony for the college.

The article reports on the absence of diplomas during the seventy-seventh commencement exercises of Saint Lawrence University Theological School in Canton, New York in June 1937. There was only one candidate for graduation at the little Universalist institution. However, the faculty decided that he had not prepared himself sufficiently for a Bachelor of Divinity degree.

The article offers updates on educational issues and events in the U.S. The commencement week of the State Normal University in Normal, Illinois will commence on May 22, 1881 and will end on May 28, 1881. The State Teachers' Association in Kansas will held its meeting in Manhattan, Kansas on June 21-22, 1881. The Union College in New York will sponsor a grand gathering of its alumni and friends on June 22, 1881.