Articles
May 18, 2012
Overcoming the Poverty Challenge to Enable College and Career Readiness for All: The Crucial Role of Student Supports
Robert Balfanz, Everyone Graduates Center, School of Education, Johns Hopkins...
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May 2, 2012
Describes How Check & Connect follows the recommendations of the IES Dropout Prevention Practice Guide
Check & Connect information based on recommendations from the ......
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May 2, 2012
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-engagement-stories-heather-wolpert-gawron
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April 24, 2012
April 18, 2012
This was a great webinar that gave easy to implement strategies to improve student outcomes during the critical transition periods of middle school, high school and college.
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April 11, 2012
From the Detroit Free Press-- April 11, 2012
Despite fears of soaring dropout rates, the first Class of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (2011), had only a small increase in the dropout rate. Programs...
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March 29, 2012
Coming Fall 2012
We all know the devastating human, civic and economic impact of students dropping out of school. However, designing and implementing a dropout prevention system for your...
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March 29, 2012
Student Voice
What is student voice?
There are numerous definitions for “student voice”. Here are some that capture a variety of components:
Student voice is the individual and...
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March 21, 2012
Doing What Works Promotes Research-Based Practices for High School Administrators
Presentations for secondary administrators at the NASSP conference, March 2012
http://blog....
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March 21, 2012
Georgia Works on Raising Graduation Rates for Students with Disabilities
http://blog.betterhighschools.org/georgia-works-on-raising-graduation-rates-for-students-with-disabilities
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March 21, 2012
From Education Week
Michigan is cited as one of the states making strides to de-empasizing seat time and emphasizing content mastery.
READ THE ARTICLE
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March 21, 2012
When Cyberbullying Spills into Schools
National High School Center Blog
http://blog.betterhighschools.org/when-cyberbullying-spills-into-schools
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March 5, 2012
"Research on comprehensive school reform suggests that improvement strategies have the best opportunity for success and sustainability when they take into account the broad array of...
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March 2, 2012
At-Risk/Dropout Prevention
and Intervention Program
http://www.davenport.k12.ia.us/curriculum/learningsupports/DropoutPreventionInterventionProgram.pdf
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February 10, 2012
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/impguide.pdf
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/impguide.pdf
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February 10, 2012
Center On Instruction
http://instructionalcenter.org/helping-newcomer-students-succeed-in-secondary-schools-and-beyond
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February 3, 2012
This publication was produced by Jobs for the Future under the U.S. Department of Education Contract No. ED-CFO-10-A-0045/0001 (Subtask 4.1.5).
Contents
USING DATA TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTION AND...
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February 1, 2012
Resource Materials for High School Counselors
http://blog.betterhighschools.org/what-we-are-reading-school-counselors-transitions-and-graduation-requirements
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January 23, 2012
http://blog.betterhighschools.org/ndtac-highlights-truancy-prevention-programs
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January 19, 2012
State program reaches out to keep kids in school
Brandon Marcilis is just the kind of kid state Superintendent Mike Flanagan had in mind when he urged school leaders in 2009 to take a more...
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January 4, 2012
Contributed by Gregg Dionne, MDE
Students take advantage of new alternative high school in Wixom
Published: Sunday, January 01, 2012
By DIANA DILLABER MURRAY
diana.dillaber@oakpress.com;...
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December 14, 2011
“The middle grades are the make-or-break point of our K–12 public school system,” said SREB President Dave Spence. “If states are serious about raising graduation rates and...
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November 28, 2011
NEW! Early Warning System Tools Help Keep Middle Grades and High School Students On Track to Graduate High School
The National High School Center is pleased to announce the release of a new Early...
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November 27, 2011
Reporter's Notebook: Helping Students Succeed in Detroit
By: Hari Sreenivasan
The facts that paint a bleak, dark, down-and-out Motor City are not scarce. Whether...
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November 27, 2011
JOIN THE SUPERINTENDENT'S DROPOUT CHALLENGE HERE
Michigan Droput Challenge Application
Please view this memorandum issued to all Michigan school systems.
November 17, 2011...
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