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The Silent Epidemic: Who drops out and why |
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One of the most powerful forces working in our favor is that students do not want to drop out. They want to graduate. The vast majority of students who drop out have extreme regrets, many calling it the worst decision of their lives.
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The Silent Epidemic: High dropout rates afflicting our nation’s high schools. |
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The dropout epidemic in the United States disproportionately affects young people who are low income, minority, urban, single parent children attending large, public high schools in the inner city. But the problem is not unique to young people in such circumstances.
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The Silent Epidemic: Policy Pathways |
The stories, insights and reflections from this student survey and the focus groups reveal the importance of the student voice in the discussion about what must be done to improve high school graduation rates and to prepare struggling stu¬dents for successful futures. The students have spoken. It is time for us to respond. To help these students succeed, we need:
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The Silent Epidemic: Summary |
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The central message of this report is that while some students drop out because of significant academic challenges, most dropouts are students who could have, and believe they could have, succeeded in school.
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The Silent Epidemic: Letter to the American People |
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There is a high school dropout epidemic in America. Each year, almost one third of all public high school students – and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans – fail to graduate from public high school with their class.
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More than 100 organizations representing educators and community members endorsed this 10-Point Plan to Address America’s Silent Epidemic:
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Public school dropouts from all across the country told us that most had passing grades, big career dreams, and were confident they could have graduated. They suggested what research supports that effectively combating dropouts requires—accurate information in schools about the dropout problem, higher expectations, more individualized instruction, alternative learning environments, better teachers who keep classes interesting, and more engaged parents.
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School Dropout Prevention Program |
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These strategies, although appearing to be independent, frequently overlap and are synergistic. They can be implemented as stand-alone programs (i.e. mentoring or family involvement projects.) When school districts develop an improvement plan that encompasses most or all of these strategies, positive outcomes result. These strategies have been successful in all school levels from K-12 and in rural, suburban, or urban centers.
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Teen pregnancy is closely linked to a number of other critical issues, including overall child and family well-being. Simply put, if more children in this country were born to parents who are ready and able to care for them, we would see a significant reduction in a host of social problems in the United States, from school failure and crime to child abuse and neglect.
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Plan for Reducing the School Dropout Rate |
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NEA has developed 12 action steps to address the nation's school dropout crisis. While there are many ways to address this problem, NEA has chosen steps that are the most promising based on a wide range of experience and data.
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