TOPIC: Dropout Prevention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet

• Dropout Prevention
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Guidance Notes

• Dropout Prevention
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Working with Disengaged Students

Newsletter

• Concerns = Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School

Quick Training Aids

• Case Management in the School Context
• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Continuing Education Module

• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling

Reports & Briefs

• A Center Policy & Practice Analysis Brief: School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?

Fact & Information Resources

• Defining Multiple Pathways for High School Graduation

Training Tutorial

• Classroom Changes to Enhance & Reengage Students in Learning

Technical Aid Packet

• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Quick Find

• School Avoidance

Articles

• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2000). Moving Prevention From the Fringes into the Fabric of School Improvement. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 11(1), 7-36.

• Achieving Graduation for All: A Governor's Guide to Dropout Prevention and Recovery
• Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research: The Dropout Argument
• Dropout Prevention
• Dropout Prevention Practice guide
• Dropout Prevention Resource Guide
• Dropout Rates Vary Among Immigrant Groups
• The Economic, Social, and Fiscal Consequences of Dropping out of High School
• Educational attainment of high school dropouts 8 years later National Center for Education Statistics
• Every Student Counts: The Role of Federal Policy in Improving Graduation Rate Accountability
• How to End the Dropout Crisis: Proven strategies for keeping kids in school.
• Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice Institute for Community Integration
• Keeping count and losing count: Calculating graduation rates for all students under NCLB accountability Urban Institute Education Policy Center
• Keeping kids in school: Lessons from research about preventing dropouts
• Locating the dropout crisis, Center for Social Organization of Schools
• Late high school dropouts: characteristics, experiences, and changes across cohorts (2009) National Center for Education Statistics
• Losing our future: how minority youth are being left behind by the graduation rate crisis G. Orfield, et al, Urban Institute
• The Nation's Dropout Crisis: The Educators' Perspectives
• National Education Association's Plan for Reducing School Dropouts
• One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities
• Plans for Dropout Prevention and Special School Support Services for American Indian and Alaska Native Students
• Public schools graduates and dropouts from the common core of data: school year 2005-06. (2008) National Center for Education Statistics
• Raising Graduation and College Going Rates
• The real truth about low graduation rates, and evidence-based commentary
• Reducing Dropout Rates
• School Connectedness and Meaningful Student Participation
• The School Dropout Crisis
• The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
• Truancy Reduction: Keeping Students in School
• Understanding and Addressing the Issue of the High School Dropout Age
• Understanding Dropouts: Statistics, Strategies and High-Stakes Testing
• Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia's Dropout Crisis
• Users guide to computing high school graduate rates
• What Works? Targeted Truancy and Dropout Programs in Middle and High School
• What Your Community Can Do to End Its Drop-Out Crisis
• Who graduates? Who doesn't? A statistical portrait of public high school graduation C. Swanson, Urban Institute

Video Clips

• National Dropout Prevention: Solutions to Dropout Crisis
• Preventing High School Dropout
• An In-Depth Look at Chronic Absenteeism

Related Agencies and Websites

• America's Promise Alliance
• The Alternative Schools Network (ASN)
• ASPIRA Association, Inc.
• The Center for Employment Training (CET)
• Dropout Prevention: Priority One
• High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States 2007 (2009) National Center for Education Statistics
• How Can We Help? Understanding Dropout Prevention Programs
• Institute for At-Risk Infants, Children, & Youth and Their Families
• Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Dropout Prevention Center
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• New Re-Engagement Center
• Research for Better Schools
• SAGE (Skills and Academic Grant Education) Alternative Education Program)
• SERVE
• What Works Clearinghouse

• Current information on dropout prevention: Ideas from the practitioners and the literature. Martin, E. J., Tobin, T. J., & Sugai, G. M. (2002). Preventing School Failure, 47(1), 10-17.
• Do we know whom to serve? issues in using risk factors to identify dropouts. Gleason, P., & Dynarski, M. (2002). Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 7(1), 25-41.
• A drop-out prevention program for high-risk inner-city youth. Behavior Modification. Lever, N., Sander, M. A., Lombardo, S., Randall, C., Axelrod, J., & Rubenstein, M. et al. (2004). Special Expanded School Mental Health: Exploring Program Details and Developing the Research Base, 28(4), 513-527.
• Dropout-prevention programs: Right intent, wrong focus, and some suggestions on where to go from here. Montecel, M. R., Cortez, J. D., & Cortez, A. (2004). Education And Urban Society, 36(2), 169-188.
• Dropout prevention strategies for hispanic students. Purcell, J. (2000). U.S.; California: from ERIC database.
• Dropout Prevention Tools. Schargel, F.P. (2003). Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education Inc.
• Dropping out of school: A review of intervention programs. Prevatt, F., & Kelly, F. D. (2003). Journal of School Psychology, 41(5), 377-395.
• Early literacy education: First steps toward dropout prevention. effective strategies for school improvement and dropout prevention. Stegelin, D. A. (2002). U.S.; South Carolina: National Dropout Prevention Center.
• Evaluation of a 4-year dropout prevention program: Comparison of high school hispanic and african american students. Rodriguez, N. M. (2004). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences, 64(7-A), 2385. database.
• Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention. Schargel, F.P., & Smink, J. (Eds.). (2004). Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, Inc.
• A motivational model of rural students' intentions to persist in, versus drop out of, high school. Hardre, P. L., & Reeve, J. (2003). Journal of educational psychology, 95(2), 347-356.
• Moving beyond dropout towards school completion: An integrative review of data-based interventions. Lehr, C. A., Hansen, A., Sinclair, M. F., & Christenson, S. L. (2003). School Psychology Review, 32(3), 342-364.
• Predictors of early high school dropout: A test of five theories. Battin-Pearson, S., Abbott, R. D., Hill, K. G., Catalano, R. F., Hawkins, J. D., & Newcomb, M. D. (2000). Journal of educational psychology, 92(3), 568-582.
• Prediction of risk for secondary school dropout: Personal, family and school factors/La prediction du risque de decrochage scolaire au secondaire : Facteurs personnels, familiaux et scolaires. Fortin, L., Royer, É, Potvin, P., Marcotte, D., & Yergeau, É. (2004). Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 36(3), 219-231.
• Preventing high school dropout among students with mild disabilities: A literature review. Sutherland, M. B., & MacMillan, R. C. (2001). U.S.; Pennsylvania: from ERIC database.
• Qualitative assessment of cognitive-based dropout prevention strategy. Chinien, C., & Boutin, F. (2002). High School Journal, 85(2), 1-11.
• A Recommended Approach to Providing High School Dropout and Completion Rates at the State Level. Winglee, M. (2000). Washington, D.C.: U.S Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
• Reducing dropout rates. educational benchmark 2000 series. Creech, J. D. (2000). U.S.; Georgia: Southern Regional Education Board.
• Retaining African Americans in Higher Education: Challenging Paradigms for Retaining Black Students, Faculty and Administrators. Jones, L. (Eds.). (2001). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
• Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem. Schargel, F.P., & Smink, J. (2001). Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education Inc.
• Student-teacher relationships: An overlooked factor in school dropout. Davis, K. S., & Dupper, D. R. (2004). Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 9(1-2), 179-193.
• Through a new lens: Contemporary psychological perspectives on school completion and dropping out of high school. Doll, B., & Hess, R. S. (2001). School Psychology Quarterly, 16(4), 351-356.
• Understanding dropouts: Statistics, strategies, and high-stakes testing. National Research Council. (2001). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
• Youth Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents.  Capuzzi, D., Gross, D.R., (2000).  American Counseling Association: Alexandria, VA.

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