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Download full textNGA Center for Best Practices, 2011
Efforts to improve educational attainment are hampered by the high school dropout crisis. At a time when governors are calling for changes to improve higher education access and success, more than 1 million youth ages 16 to 19 are not enrolled in school and do not have a high school diploma. Each year, an additional 390,000 youth drop out of…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Incentives, Educational Attainment, Educational Change
Allen, Lili; Wolfe, Rebecca E. – Jobs for the Future, 2010
In the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District has achieved a startling success over the last two years: it has recovered and graduated over 600 dropouts and put them on a clear pathway to college. Just a few years ago, low graduation rates, struggling high schools, and poor staff and student morale…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, School Districts
Peer reviewedConrath, Jerry – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Although the national reports have not focused on the problem, effective schools must address the needs of potential school dropouts. The author rebuts some of the common arguments against dropout prevention programs, arguing that successful dropout prevention is one of the key indicators of overall school effectiveness. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Salerno, Anne – 1991
This ERIC digest examines the extent of early school leaving among migrants, conditions that precede early school leaving, common features of programs that work to retrieve dropouts, and illustrative programs that exhibit these features. The Migrant Attrition Project estimates a 45% national dropout rate of migrant students. Conditions that lead…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Denham, Alice, Ed. – 1987
This proceedings report presents dropout statistics, descriptions of prevention programs, and recommendations for future efforts. After an introduction to the dropout problem, the proceedings contains transcripts of welcomes and greetings from the mayor of Lubbock and officials from Texas Tech's College of Education, the State Board of Education,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Costs, Dropout Prevention
Cabrera, M.; And Others – 1979
An alternative high school is proposed to meet the needs of the substantial number of Yuma students who are dropping out of school at increasing rates. In the period from 1974 to 1978 enrollment at Yuma's 2 high schools increased by only 8% while the drop-out rate increased by 56%. Enrollment figures show that the drop-out rate is highest in grade…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Career Development, Declining Enrollment, Discipline Problems
