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High School Dropout Prevention
Defining Dropout | Early Warning Signs | Dropout Prevention Strategies | Dropout Prevention for Students with Special Needs | Research on this Topic 
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Far too many high school students drop out of school long before graduation day. The National High School Center will provide a variety of valuable resources in the area of dropout prevention. A relatively strong research base exists for student dropout prevention, and when it comes to these types of high school interventions, researchers know a great deal about what works. The National High School Center will help bridge those research-based findings with real-life practice in schools.
Dropout Prevention Strategies
New Hampshire's Multi-Tiered Approach to Dropout Prevention
Many states and districts across the country struggle with designing and implementing coherent dropout prevention initiatives that promote academic advancement, especially for special needs students, who drop out at much higher rates than the general student population. New Hampshire has been recognized for its innovative use of data collection and analysis as the key to unlocking the dropout problem. (March 2007)
“Preventing High School Dropout” Webinar
Representing both the research and practitioner perspectives, this Webinar highlights key research-based findings and dropout prevention strategies. (December 2006)
Bringing Off-Track Youth into the Center of High School Reform: Lessons and Tools from Leading Communities
This resource was designed for educators and other community leaders in cities across the nation to use as a “starter kit” for their communities in planning a systemic approach to dropout prevention and recovery. The first chapter provides a set of tools to help educators prevent students from becoming disengaged and dropping out; the second chapter offers tools to help districts develop and implement new and challenging options for re-engaging youth who are significantly off-track or have left school completely; and the third chapter focuses on managing and governance issues and strategies for evaluating and improving schools that serve off-track youth.
Dropout Prevention
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has released a new practice guide, Dropout Prevention. This guide provides six specific recommendations for reducing dropout rates in high schools and middle schools. Designed for school- and district-level administrators, the guide offers processes for diagnosing dropout problems, intervention practices, and schoolwide reforms that can be of use to educators, school boards, and policymakers in implementing dropout prevention strategies.
Fifteen Effective Strategies for Improving Student Attendance and Truancy Prevention
Jay Smink and Mary S. Reimer outline strategies schools can implement for improving attendance and truancy, and subsequently dropout rates. Accompanying each strategy are recommended resources and model programs.
Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle the Dropout Crisis
This guidebook from the America’s Promise Alliance provides research-based guidance for schools, districts, and community members to address the dropout crisis locally. Each section has a corresponding tool, and provides useful statistics and ideas, as well as offering resources for a deeper look into the issue.
Grad Nation: Tools
These tools accompany the Grad Nation report from the America’s Promise Alliance. Each tool is linked directly from the report, but they may all be printed out in a single file for easy use. Each of the 30 tools helps communities address the dropout crisis at a local level. Tools on policy audits, early warning systems, goal setting, team organizing, and community buy-in are included.
Prioritizing the Nation’s Dropout Factories: The Need for Federal Policy That Targets the Lowest-Performing High Schools
This policy brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education discusses the characteristics of high schools that produce a high number of dropouts and identifies ways that Federal policy and funding—particularly the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)—can be leveraged to reduce dropout rates.
What Your Community Can Do to End Its Drop-out Crisis: Learnings From Research and Practice
In this publication, Robert Balfanz shares over a decade’s worth of research at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University. The paper is written as a practical guide for community members that spells out a three step plan to end the dropout crisis and provides numerous practical resources and exemplars.
Youth Engagement in High Schools: Developing a Multidimensional, Critical Approach to Improving Engagement for All Students
This report from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) provides a background on the latest research and policy efforts addressing youth engagement in high schools. Recommendations focus on the need for further research that looks at student engagement through qualitative and quasi-experimental lenses, as well as studying the long-term effects of interventions.
