Categories

EQUITY, outcomes

Areas

PRACTITIONER:group practice and professional learning

Authors

Tara Tucci

Published

2009

Publisher

Alliance for Excellent Education

Abstract

The crisis is neither silent nor invisible: one in three high school students do not graduate,1 and more than half of those dropouts are produced by just 12 percent of high schoolsa-schools commonly known as ―dropout factories,‖ where just 60 percent or fewer of entering freshman progress to their senior year three years later.2 Although it‘s a concentrated problem, with a small number of schools producing a large share of dropouts, it is not a localized one. Dropout factories are located in every state; in urban, suburban, rural, and small-town America; in large high schools and small. Their one unifying characteristic, however, is that they disproportionately serve our nation‘s poor and minority students.

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• http://ea.niusileadscape.org/docs/FINAL_PRODUCTS/LearningCarousel/PrioritizingDropoutFactories.pdf