Practice Guide
Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools
This practice guide provides school educators and administrators with four evidence-based recommendations for reducing dropout rates in middle and high schools and improving high school graduation rates. Each recommendation provides specific, actionable strategies; examples of how to implement the recommended practices in schools; advice on how to overcome potential obstacles; and a description of the supporting evidence.
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Monitor the progress of all students, and proactively intervene when students show early signs of attendance, behavior, or academic problems.
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Provide intensive, individualized support to students who have fallen off track and face significant challenges to success.
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Topics: Grades:
Topics: Grades:
Audience:
- Administrators
- Parent/Family
- Policymakers
- Teacher
This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-IES-15-C-0054.
The following research staff contributed to the guide: Julie Bruch, Erin Dillon, Joshua Furgeson, Madhavi Jayanthi, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Kate Place, and Christina Tuttle.
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Russell W. Rumberger
(Chair)
University of California, Santa Barbara -
Howard (Sandy) Addis
National Dropout Prevention Center and Network -
Elaine Allensworth
University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
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Robert Balfanz
Center for the Social Organization of Schools at The Johns Hopkins University School of Education -
Debra Duardo
Los Angeles County Office of Education -
Mark Dynarski
Pemberton Research LLC
Video
Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools
March 23, 2018
This recording of the webinar, Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools, offers an overview of the What Works Clearinghouse practice guides, on dropout preven...
Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools
This recording of the webinar, Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools, offers an overview of the What Works Clearinghouse practice guides, on dropout prevention.
This protocol guided the review of research that informed the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools, published in September 2017.
