DROPOUTS RESOURCES

WEBSITES

Harvard Civil Rights Project - Dropouts

The project looks in depth at key civil rights and inequality issues that have been overlooked.

Standup.org
Standup.org is a community-based response to America's education crisis desiring to inform and equip parents, educators and youth with the tools and resources to keep kids in schools.

The Graduation Gap - Johns Hopkins Center for the Social Organization of Schools

An online resource dedicated to providing relevant and up-to-date resources for those concerned about helping students graduate from high school.

ORGANIZATIONS

Boston Urban Youth Foundation
Boston Urban Youth Foundation serves over 500 youth ages 11-18 from the Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods of Boston. BUYF uniquely combines case management, incarnational mentoring, academic skill-building, vision casting, and positive peer group experiences to build positive futures, one kid at a time. BUYF motivates, mobilizes and equips at-risk youth toward college and a positive future.

Focus Adolescent Services - Youth Who Drop Out

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Dropout/expulsion

ARTICLES & REPORTS

Bridgeland, John, John J. DiIulio, Jr. and Karen Burke Morison. (March 2006) "The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts," A Report by Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart Associates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

"The dropout problem in numbers," in Whatever it Takes: How Twelve Communities are Reconnecting Out-of-school Youth, Washington, DC: American Youth Policy Forum, ppvii-viii.

Greene, Jay and Marcus Winters. (April 2006) "Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates," Civic Report, No. 48, The Manhattan Institute.

Losen, Dan and Johanna Wald. (March 2004) "Confronting the Graduation Crisis in California," Harvard University: The Civil Rights Project.

Losen, Dan and Johanna Wald. (May 2004) "Confronting the Graduation Crisis in the South," Harvard University: The Civil Rights Project.

(July 2005) "The Ones We Lose: Towards a Systemic Approach to High School Reform," Presentation for Grantmakers for Education and Education Commission of the States, Youth Transition Funders Group.

Orfield, Gary, et al. (2004) "Losing our Future: How Minority Youth are Being left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis," Harvard University, The Civil Rights Project.

Thornburgh, N. (17 April 2006). "Dropout Nation: The number of high school students who leave before graduating is higher-much higher-than you think. Inside one town's struggle to reverse the tide." Time, pp.30.

BOOKS

Orfield, Gary, ed. (2004) Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis. Harvard Education Press, 306pp.

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