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Truancy and Dropout

Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Education

This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools in school year 2006

Keeping Pregnant and Parenting Students From Dropping Out: A Guide for Policymakers and Schools

Publisher: 
Healthy Teen Network, National Women's Law Center

This guide for policymakers and schools explains how Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 protects pregnant and parenting students' rights to an equitable education.

Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment

Publisher: 
U.S. Government Accountability Office

This report discusses the challenges faced by local programs that reconnect youth to education and employment.

Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention

Publisher: 
Civic Enterprises

This report presents original and secondary research that shows the ability of service-learning to address some of the principle causes of dropping out.

Towards a More Telling Way of Understanding Early School Leaving

Publisher: 
The Institutes for Educational Research

This paper explores the pathway taken by students through withdrawal and disengagement towards leaving school early.

Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004

Publisher: 
US Department of Education

This report draws on diverse sources to provide data on the numbers and rates of public school students who dropped out of high school in school years 2002

National Portrait of Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades

Publisher: 
National Center for Children in Poverty

This brief reveals a significant level of absenteeism in the early school years, especially among low-income children, and confirms its detrimental effects on school success by examining children f

Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation

Publisher: 
Editorial Projects in Education

This report takes a geographically-informed approach to the issue of high school completion.

When Girls Don't Graduate We All Fail: A Call to Improve High School Graduation Rates for Girls

Publisher: 
National Women's Law Center

This report provides information on female students who do not complete high school.

Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

Publisher: 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This article summarizes knowledge on the link between health and high school graduation and discusses the pathways by which graduating from high school contributes to good health.