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.
Engage students by offering curricula and programs that connect schoolwork with college and career success and that improve students’ capacity to manage challenges in and out of school.
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.
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
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
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...
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.
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