Dropout Prevention Research

Dropout Prevention Articles, News, and Research:

Chronic Elementary Absenteeism: A Problem Hidden in Plain Sight, Attendance Works, November 2011

Three Steps to Building an Early Warning and Intervention System for Potential Dropouts, Hopkins University, Nov. 2, 2011

Kids Less Likely to Graduate than Parents, MSNBC, Oct. 23, 2008

Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades, NCCP, September 2008

Behind the Scenes: Poverty, gangs plague some L.A. students, CNN/US, Sep. 18, 2011

Preventing Student Disengagement and Keeping Students on the Graduation Path in Urban Middle-Grades Schools: Early Identification and Effective Interventions, Educational Psychologist, 2007

Present and Accounted for: Improving Student Attendance Through Family and Community Involvement, Journal of Educational Research, May/June 2002

What Factors Predict High School Graduation in the Los Angeles Unified School District, California Dropout Research Project Report #14, June 2008