Over the past decade, research on dropout prevention has become focused on using evidence-based practice, and data-driven decisions, to mitigate students' dropping out of high school and instead, support and prepare students for career and college. Early warning systems or on-track indicators, in which readily available student-level data are used…

This paper describes the design and function of Louisiana's statewide student-level database, the Student Information System (SIS). In Louisiana the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education adopted the dropout definition of the National Center for Education Statistics for use by all Louisiana public schools in the 1989-1990 school year.…

THIS SURVEY ATTEMPTED TO IDENTIFY THE DUTIES OR ROLE OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR AS SEEN BY COUNSELORS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT OUT TO 253 CERTIFICATED COUNSELORS, 561 PRINCIPALS, AND 67 SUPERINTENDENTS. THEY AGREED THAT A COUNSELOR SHOULD (1) COUNSEL ALL STUDENTS, (2) COLLECT AND DISSEMINATE OCCUPATIONAL…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of selected social, economic, and demographic factors and the dropout rate for the 64 Louisiana parishes. Data were taken from the 1950 and 1960 Census Population Reports for Louisiana. Correlational techniques were utilized in the measurement of relationships between independent and…

This paper documents the multistep procedure used by the Louisiana Department of Education, Bureau of School Accountability to correct and verify the data that drive the state's statewide school performance indicator program, the "Progress Profiles." The paper also reports the findings of a nationwide survey in which state departments of…

This report explores the situation of at-risk students in small and rural schools in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, and compares this information to the at-risk student situation nationwide. In order to explore both the complexity and the degree of risk of dropping out in rural school settings, research questions were posed…

This annual report defines three broad areas in which the Southern Education Foundation supports research. The first looks to what kinds of teachers will be needed in the future; the second asks how our best thinking can be translated into effective action; and the third asks how seamless education can be. Programs subsumed under education and…