Do we have what it takes to put all students on the graduation path?

Abstract

According to current estimates, more than a quarter of all students and over 40 percent of African American and Hispanic students do not graduate from high school on time. The vast majority of those young people who do not graduate with their peers drop out. The enormous costs to these individuals, their communities, and our society require us to invest in systems that accurately identify young people at risk of dropping out and provide the supports necessary to keep them on track to graduation. This chapter offers a framework for action that calls on communities to identify the scale and scope of the dropout problem and understand why students disengage from school; transform or replace low-performing schools; install early warning and multitiered response systems that provide comprehensive, targeted, and intensive supports to students in and out of school; establish supportive policies and resource allocations; and build community will and capacity so positive changes are deeply implemented and sustained.

Strategies to Prepare Middle School and High School Students for College and Career Readiness

“…Each year approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school, more than half of whom are categorized as belonging to minority groups (Editorial Projects in Education 2009). Legters and Balfanz (2010) report that the employment market has changed since the early 1980s when most high school dropouts could find a job at a living wage. Today dropouts are more likely to face unemployment, poverty, ill health, incarceration, and dependence on social services.…”

O Sistema Alerta Precoce para o Insucesso Escolar – SAPIE

“…Além disso, também um ambiente escolar disfuncional pode contribuir para o absentismo crónico 7 (Van Eck e tal., 2017). Porém, cada fator, tomado isoladamente, parece não ter um poder preditivo muito significativo (Legters & Balfanz, 2010) o que, a par do parco conhecimento relativo à forma como os fatores, individuais e contextuais, se organizam em possíveis perfis de risco, assinala a possibilidade de inovar a investigação nesta área do conhecimento.…”

Early School Leaving: A Narrative Inquiry of the School Dropout

“…As mentioned earlier, Legters and Balfanz (2007) characterize these circumstances as the ABCs of school dropout prevention (p. 20). However, according to a recent report by the Boostup.org organization, For students to succeed, they need to be in school.…”

“…During initial review of the literature available on the topic, I discovered that a vast amount of existing research on school dropouts has focused on one of three main assumptions: (1) students' decisions not to attend school regularly, (2) a perception that dropouts are typically known to have poor behavior, or (3) that dropouts simply performed poorly on academic tasks. Legters and Balfanz (2007) named the combination of the three primary characteristics as the "ABCs of school dropout prevention" (p. 20).…”

“…Of particular interest is that the majority of the available research has focused on student attendance, student behavior or academic performance and the influence these characteristics can have on students' ability to be successful in school and decisions regarding their pursuit of a high school diploma. Legters and Balfanz (2007) refer to these characteristics as the ABCs of school dropout prevention (p. 20).…”