2007 Hudson Valley Student Support Services Center
- Identifying Potential Dropouts: Key Lessons for building an Early Warning Data System
- International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention
- Understanding and Addressing the Issue of the High School Dropout Age
- Johns Hopkins University's Center for Social Organization of Schools Talent Development Initiative
- What Works Clearinghouse
- National Dropout Prevention Center
- Dropout Prevention Specific to Students With Disabilities
- Search Institute
- School Climate Matters!
- School Connectedness and Meaningful Student Participation
- Dropout Statistics
Hudson Valley
Student Support Services Center
at Ulster BOCES
175 Route 32 North
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: 845-255-4874
Fax: 845-255-3836
cshw@mhric.org
175 Route 32 North
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: 845-255-4874
Fax: 845-255-3836
cshw@mhric.org
Welcome to Hudson Valley Student Support Services Center's Dropout Prevention web page. We hope educators and youth advocates will find current and relevant information on this site, in order to enhance dropout prevention efforts within your school or program.
Risk Factors
The most current research on dropout prevention has yielded some important lessons for educators and youth stakeholders. Regardless of social and demographic characteristics, education-related risk factors may be the most significant in determining whether or not a student will complete high school. This is contrary to perceptions that high school dropout is determined primarily by individual and family risk factors. Two specific categories of educational risk factors have been identified by researchers. These are:
Risk Factors
The most current research on dropout prevention has yielded some important lessons for educators and youth stakeholders. Regardless of social and demographic characteristics, education-related risk factors may be the most significant in determining whether or not a student will complete high school. This is contrary to perceptions that high school dropout is determined primarily by individual and family risk factors. Two specific categories of educational risk factors have been identified by researchers. These are:
- Poor Academic Performance: i.e., low grades, low test scores, failing English and Math, Insufficient course credits, being held back one or more times.
- Low Educational Engagement: i.e., excessive absenteeism, truancy, behaviro difficulties, lack of participation inextra-curricular activities, poor relationships with teachers and peers.
DROPOUT PREVENTION
EARLY WARNING SIGNS
Students who will later drop out of high school often exhibit some clear early warning signs, upon which prevention efforts can be targeted.
For example:
For example:
- In several recently published studies, low attendance, being overage for one's grade, and failing 9th grade all show up as important predictors of dropping out.
- Students who will drop out before the 10th grade will likely exhibit clear warning signs as early as 4th grade.
- The transitions to middle school and high school are critically important times for students. Many students will show decreased academic performance or school engagement during these years, but future dropouts will experience very large declines from which they cannot later recover. Further, powerful risk factors can be noted as early as the first month of the school year for these students.
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