A selection of resources that engage in research or advocacy regarding dropouts
Achieve
Created by the nation's governors and business leaders in 1996,
Achieve helps states raise academic standards and achievement so that
all students graduate ready for college, work and citizenship
Alliance for Excellent Education
Policy center whose mission is to promote high school transformation to make it possible
for every child to graduate prepared for postsecondary education and success in life.
America's Promise Alliance
Building on the legacy of founder General Colin Powell, the alliance is committed to seeing that children experience the fundamental resources they need to succeed – the Five Promises (caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, an effective education and opportunities to help others) – at home, in school and out in the community.
BetterHighSchools.org
(National High School Center)
A central source of information and expertise on high school improvement issues...
California Mayors' Education Roundtable
The California Mayors' Education Roundtable, a WestEd initiative,
brings together mayors and their key staff members to discuss education and youth issues and develop common ground to work collectively on
statewide education and related issues. Convened by WestEd and funded by The James Irvine Foundation, Roundtable members exchange education ideas, practices, policies, programs and strategies.
California
Student Success Project
CSSP works to focus attention on the immediate policy window to actively engage policymakers and business, education, labor, and community leaders in the need to design and implement a comprehensive education change framework aligned to higher student and educator outcomes, with the resources needed to dramatically improve the future for students and the state.
Campaign for
High School Equity
Coalition of national organizations representing communities of color working
in partnership to host joint events, copublish relevant research and policy analysis,
and take collective action on issues vital to ensuring high school success.
Center
for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education (CBCSE)
(at Teachers College, Columbia University)
Conducts economic research on the benefits and costs of alternative educational policies and interventions.
Center
for the Social Organization of Schools
An educational research and development center at Johns Hopkins University
Civic Enterprises, LLC
A public policy firm that helps corporations, nonprofits, foundations, universities
and governments develop and spearhead innovative public policies to strengthen our
communities and country
The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles
Research and advocacy center devoted to renewing the civil rights movement
by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, and by becoming a preeminent source
of intellectual capital and a forum for building consensus within that movement
EdNews
Online education news and information source.
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
Mission is to take a hard-nosed look at the research to find what really works to keep kids from becoming criminals and then share information about proven crime-prevention strategies with policymakers, the media and the public.
Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
Independent, private non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening public schools to work for all children.
Also, see IDRA's
Graduation for All e-letter.
IQ: Irvine Quarterly
The James Irvine Foundation publication
Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research
Policy center with a mission to shape American political culture
National Dropout
Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N)
Research center and resource network to reshape school and community environments
to meet needs of youth in at-risk situations
National Dropout Prevention Center
for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD)
Research center that synthesizes research provides technical assistance to
develop and enhance dropout prevention programs for students with disabilities
National Education
Association (NEA)
Nation's largest professional employee organization with 3.2 million members
that addresses the dropout issue in the following publications and multimedia
The Silent Epidemic
Civic Enterprises, MTV, Time magazine, and the National
Governor's Association were sponsors of the
"National Summit on America's Silent Epidemic".
This related web site contains information for parents, educators,
policymakers and students. Find your school district's true,
on-time graduation rate,
statistics and facts about high school dropout rates,
why students drop out and more.
State Education Reforms (SER)
NCES website, which draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than NCES, compiles and disseminates data on state-level education reform efforts in four areas: (1) standards, assessment, and accountability, (2) school finance reforms, (3) resources for learning, and (4) state support for school choice options.
United Way: Goals for the Common Good |
See also: United Way's Education Page
Goal: to cut high school dropout rate in half over the next 10 years
What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
Agency administered by he U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that
collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions
(programs, products, practices, and policies)
