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Direct linkGewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2010
In the first wave of funding under a revitalized high school graduation initiative, the U.S. Department of Education is betting nearly $50 million that it can help states and school districts find better ways to hang onto students who might drop out and bring back those who have disappeared without diplomas. Twenty-nine states and districts won…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention, Grants
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2009
Federal regulations have opened a door that allows schools to get credit under the No Child Left Behind Act for students who take longer than four years to earn a high school diploma. That option worries some education advocates, who fear it could relieve valuable pressure on high schools to graduate students on time. Under the law's…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Graduation
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2009
When Superintendent Anthony Amato arrived in Stockton, California's 38,000-student district, he knew that three of its four comprehensive high schools had been labeled "dropout factories." Mr. Amato, who has led the Hartford, Connecticut, Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans districts, studied Stockton's data to form his plan. Then he…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Activities, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2009
Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, a 750-student middle school in upper north Philadelphia, is a showcase for a comprehensive approach to dropout prevention. It produced such dramatic improvements in attendance, behavior, and course-passing rates last year that it's being tried this year in 11 more middle or high schools in Chicago, Los…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Change, Coaching (Performance), Professional Development
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2007
This article discusses a program at John Adams High School in New York City that helps students who have fallen behind acquire the credits they need to graduate, while still enabling them to hold a job and meet family obligations. The program is one of 20 Young Adult Borough Centers operated by the New York City Department of Education in…
Descriptors: College Planning, Young Adults, Social Work, Graduation
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2005
Hanging onto kids who might otherwise leave school is the mission of the Options Complex at Margaret A. Ireland School in Cleveland. Options Complex is a program for students in grades 6-12 who are behind in school by two or more years. Much of the concern about dropout rates has focused on improving high schools. Experts say that struggling…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Middle Schools, Dropout Prevention, Age Grade Placement
