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Everyone Graduates!

Everyone Graduates!. What Your School and Community Can Do to Prevent Dropout and Secure Success for All Youth Nettie Legters Center for Social Organization of Schools Johns Hopkins University Prepared for the National High School Center Summer Institute Washington, DC, June 2008.

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Everyone Graduates!

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  1. Everyone Graduates! What Your School and Community Can Do to Prevent Dropout and Secure Success for All Youth Nettie Legters Center for Social Organization of Schools Johns Hopkins University Prepared for the National High School Center Summer Institute Washington, DC, June 2008

  2. UNDERSTAND OUR CHALLENGE

  3. How Many Drop Out? • Nationwide, 1.2 million students drop out of high school each year • 7,000/day, 12 million over the next decade • Every nine seconds in America, a student becomes a dropout

  4. Where Do They Drop Out? • Half attended achievement gap high schools across the country • Half attended chronically low performing high schools located • In urban areas in Northeast, Midwest and West • In all areas throughout the South and Southeast

  5. Where Did All The Freshmen Go? 12th Graders 197 11th Graders 259 10th Graders 327 9thGraders 484 Number of 9th Graders in 1996/97 = 669 % promoted to 12th grade in four years = 29%

  6. The Nation’s Dropout Crisis is Concentrated in 15% of its High Schools in Which Every Year 40% or More of Students Fail to Graduate

  7. Why Do Students Drop Out? • Bright But Bored • Life Event • Academic Failure • Multi-year Process of Disengagement • Most Have High Aspirations and Regret Dropping Out Read: The Silent Epidemic Dropouts in America

  8. Why Do Schools Drop Out Students? • The Greatest Proximate Cause is that there is a fundamental Miss-Match between the Number of Students in Need of Academic and Social Supports and the Human Resources and Know How Available to Help

  9. First-time freshmen First-time, no more than 14 years old First-time, on-age, attendance of at least 80% in 8th grade First-time, on-age, at least 80% attendance, 7th+ in math and reading The Number of Students in need of mentors, tutors, attendance monitoring, and homework support in High Poverty Secondary Schools can be in the 100’s

  10. TAKE ACTION

  11. Identify Dropouts and Develop Early Warning Systems • Implement System of Comprehensive, Targeted, and Intensive Interventions in Schools and Across Your Community • States and Districts Serve as Brokers of Diverse Portfolio of High Schools and Coordinated Interventions • Advocate for Federal and State Investments

  12. IDENTIFY DROPOUTS • Are Easily Identifiable Using Data Routinely Collected by Schools • Can be Identified at Key Junctures of Secondary School When Their Odds for Success are About to Take a Turn for the Worse • Often Persist in School for a Long Time before Dropping Out, Despite Years of Struggles

  13. Attendance, Behavior and Course Failure in the Secondary Grades are Highly Predictive of High School Graduation

  14. In High Poverty School Districts, 75% of Eventual Dropouts Can be Identified between the 6th and 9th Grade

  15. Using Early Warning Systems and On and Off Track Indicators We Can Identify Which Students have Great Odds of Dropping Out Long Before They Do So

  16. Comprehensive Prevention Model

  17. High School Reform Components • Personalized School Organization • Small Learning Communities, Ninth Grade Academy, Career Academies, Teams, Common Planning Time, Extended Class Periods • Curriculum/Instruction • Common Core College Preparatory Curriculum • Individualized Learning Plans • Double & Triple Dose Math & English • Active Instruction, Integrated Career Themes • Freshman Seminar, Senior Seminar • Acceleration Opportunities (AP, IB, Early College) • Student and Staff Support • Mentors, Tutors, Counseling, Wrap-Around Services • Leadership Development • Planning & Coaching • Community Engagement and Partnerships

  18. School Disengagement Precedes Involvement with the Juvenile Justice System and Teenage Pregnancy

  19. Currently in Large Cities the Social Safety Net is Not Working

  20. Important State and Federal Roles in Transforming Secondary Education • Graduation Promise Act-(sufficiently funded to transform all low performing high schools) • Success in the Middle Bill • Adolescent Literacy • Highly Effective Teacher Fund • Data Systems and Graduation Rate Accountability-Common and Accurate Measure, Meaningful Growth Goals, Disaggregated, Equal to Test Scores • Secondary Innovations Bill

  21. WHAT’S THE PRIZE IF WE ACT?

  22. Social and Economic Benefits • Our nation can recoup 45 billion dollars in lost tax revenues, health care expenditures, and social service outlays if we cut the number of high school dropouts in half (Levin et. al, 2007) • Pacific Northwest could see a $8 billion boost in its economy by cutting # of dropouts in half (Alliance for Excellent Education)

  23. Benton Harbor Freshmen Bring Home the Gold

  24. The Center for Social Organization of Schools Johns Hopkins University 3003 N. Charles St., Ste. 200 Baltimore, MD 21218 410-516-8800 www.csos.jhu.edu

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