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Category: High School
- 1/1/07 - Campaign for High School Equity,
This is the Campaign for High School Equity’s inaugural publication. It “makes a compelling case for the need to invest in high schools and provides a blueprint for meaningful reform.” Its recommendations include a call to: (a) make all students proficient and prepared for college and work; (b) hold high schools accountable for student success; (c) redesign the American high school; (d) provide students with the excellent leaders and teachers they need to succeed; and (e) provide... - 1/1/07 - Kennelly, Louise, Monrad, M.
This report outlines steps that schools can take to identify at-risk students and provide the necessary support systems and relevant interventions to assist students in obtaining a high school diploma. Further, the report discusses the use of early warning data systems to target interventions for groups and individual students, offers a variety of best practice approaches undertaken by higher-performing high schools, and presents effective programs that are currently being implemented to... - 1/1/06 - National High School Center,
This policy brief outlines how NCLB relates to high schools. - Riccomini, P., Bost, L.W. , Katsiyannis, A., Zhang, D.
This Practice Brief based on the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) supported work by The What Works In Transition Synthesis Center, The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions on Dropout for Youth with Disabilities (Cobb, Sample, Alwell, & Johns, 2005), provides educators with a conceptual understanding and technical information to assist in implementing cognitive-behavioral interventions that reduce aggressive behaviors in students. - 1/1/07 - National High School Center,
This issue brief provides guidance to states as they respond to requirements presented in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) in the area of dropout prevention for students with disabilities. It also highlights the role of State Performance Plans as starting points for states to develop data collection and monitoring procedures, and supplies states with considerations and recommendations for providing a consistent method of tracking dropout data. - 1/1/09 - National High School Center,
The development of state policy to promote academic achievement for ELLs is critical to improving educational outcomes and consistent with the goals of increasing high school graduation rates and meeting Adequate Yearly Progress under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Recent research indicates that states have multiple opportunities to take the initiative in supporting school systems and schools in their efforts to keep ELLs on track to meet postsecondary success. - 1/1/08 - National High School Center,
The National High School Center’s goal is to encourage researchers, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels to engage in comprehensive, systemic efforts to maximize attainment for all high school students, with a focus on those students who have been historically underserved. To this end, we have developed a framework that consists of eight core elements and provides a lens for mapping school, district, and state high school improvement efforts. - 1/22/08 - Christenson, S.
Student engagement with school, a multidimensional construct, is considered the primary theoretical model for understanding dropout and is, quite frankly, the bottom line in interventions to promote school completion. Variously described as a commitment to and investment in learning, identification and belonging at school, participation in the school environment, and initiation of an activity to accomplish an outcome, engagement is associated with desired academic, social, and emotional... - 1/1/09 - Ethan Yazzie-Mintz
"This report is designed to provide an overview of the data so that educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, beyond the group of HSSSE participating schools, have access to the picture of student engagement generated by HSSSE and insight into the thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions of the 134,706 students from a variety of schools across the United States who participated in HSSSE 2007 and 2008. First, the report provides profiles of schools and respondents from HSSSE 2007 and... - 1/1/09 - Balfanz, R., Fox, J. , Bridgeland, J., McNaught, M.
This guidebook provides information on the dropout crisis and how communities can take action to reduce high school dropouts. - 1/1/09 - William G. Tierney , Thomas Bailey, Jill Constantine, Neal Finkelstein, Nicole Farmer Hurd
Access to higher education remains a challenge for many students who face academic and informational barriers to college entry. This guide targets high schools and school districts, and focuses on effective practices that prepare students academically for college, assist them in completing the steps to college entry, and improve their likelihood of enrolling in college. - 1/1/08 - Education Commission of the States,
This document provides information on the projects, initiatives and products of ECS and other national education and policy organizations on the subject of high school improvement. It is designed to direct policymakers to various groups and resources that might be useful in developing and implementing effective high school policy, and highlight important resources for anyone concerned with improving high schools. - 1/1/09 - Emily Forrest Cataldi, Jennifer Laird, Angelina KewalRamani, Chris Chapman
This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates that began in 1988. The report includes discussions of many rates used to study how students complete or fail to complete high school. It presents estimates of rates for 2007 and provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three and a half decades (1972-2007) along with more recent estimates of on-time graduation... - 1/1/08 - Campaign for High School Equity,
The Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE) has created High School Policy Reform: A Plan for Success, which describes the state of high school education in California and the steps that must be taken so that all young people graduate from high school ready to work, ready for college, and ready to be knowledgeable citizens. - 1/1/08 - Hammond, C., Bost, L.W.
This guide is part of the National Post-School Outcomes Center's series on Strategies for Reporting and Using Post-School Outcomes Data. It is not intended to be an exhaustive review of how to collect data on these indicators or how to analyze resulting data for the purposes of a state's SPP/APR or local reporting. Instead, the guide includes descriptive accounts of how these six states have begun to display, analyze, and apply these data in their states. - 1/1/07 - National High School Center,
Many states and districts across the country struggle with designing and implementing coherent dropout prevention initiatives that promote academic advancement, especially for special needs students, who drop out at much higher rates than the general student population. New Hampshire has been recognized for its innovative use of data collection and analysis as the key to unlocking the dropout problem.
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