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15 Effective Strategies for Dropout PreventionThe strategies were developed by Dr. Jay Smink, Executive Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University in association with Franklin P. Schargel.Download
America’s Promise High School Dropout Prevention Summit Youth Engagement HandbookDeveloped for the America’s Promise Alliance Dropout Prevention Initiative By Anderson Williams and Hal Cato of Oasis Center, Nashville, TennesseeDownload
Closing the Graduation Gap A Superintendent's Guide for Planning Multiple Pathways to Graduation. Prepared for the Youth Transitions Funders Group.Download
Creating Post-Secondary Pathways to Good Jobs for High School DropoutsCenter for American Progress ReportDownload
Dropouts: One is Too ManyExecutive summary of statewide series of dropout hearings, referencing testimony available at www.mea.org/dropoutsDownload
Financing Education Options for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth in MichiganNational Youth Employment Coalition ReportDownload
Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle the Dropout CrisisCommissioned by America's Promise Alliance. Written by Robert Balfanz, associate professor at Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University; and John Bridgeland, president and CEO, Civic EnterprisesDownload
IES Dropout Prevention Practice GuideBy the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) National Center for Education and Regional AssistanceDownload
Pathways to Graduation: Data-Driven Approaches Data to Addressing the Graduation CrisisThe Parthenon Group highlights how cities successfully shaping Multiple Pathways to Graduation are using data about students to drive their decision making process. Download
School or the Streets: Crime and Michigan's Dropout CrisisFight Crime: Invest in Kids - Michigan ReportDownload
The Principal’s role in Dropout Prevention: Seven Key PrinciplesDr. Steven Edwards' PowerpointDownload
Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-Of-School Youth American Youth Policy Forum documents what is being done to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream.Download

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