While most of the attention is on urban high schools with low graduation rates, rural schools also struggle to retain at-risk students.
March 30, 2010 - Education Week
South Carolina educators use federal stimulus dollars to work with students in danger of failing to earn diplomas.
June 2, 2010 - Education Week
The Stockton, Calif., district gets serious about lowering—and verifying—its dropout rate.
August 24, 2009 - Education Week
Each will receive $50,000 from the governors’ group to help find ways to keep students in school and bring back those who left.
January 5, 2010 - Education Week
America’s Promise Alliance joins a host of other nonprofit organizations, foundations, civil rights groups, and Oprah Winfrey in calling for efforts to combat one of the most intractable problems in public education: graduation rates.
April 3, 2008 | Updated: December 13, 2011 - Education Week
If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1
billion more in wages, according to a new analysis.
November 25, 2009 - Education Week
Research doesn’t offer much in the way of proven methods of addressing the dropout problem, experts say.
May 8, 2007 - Education Week
A new report, the fourth in a series, unites different perspectives to examine the causes of the nation’s dropout problem.
March 16, 2010 - Education Week
Teachers and principals are far more likely to blame parents and students than themselves or their schools for the high school dropout problem, according to a new study.
June 9, 2009 - Education Week
Drawing from a recent study, Cheryl Almeida, Robert Balfanz, and Adria Steinberg tell how new federal funds can be effective.
December 15, 2009 - Education Week
“With more-focused and realistic goals, we could succeed in turning around the biggest school problems, and not in the dim and distant future,” writes William Berkson.
June 11, 2009 - Education Week
