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Reports/Current Research

- 2009 Annual Update - November Board Presentation posted 11/24/09

- Office of Dropout Prevention 2009 Annual Report posted 11/23/09

- LEFT BEHIND IN AMERICA: THE NATION’S DROPOUT CRISIS

- 2009 Survey and Focus Group Summary

- Office of Dropout Prevention Year-End Report

- Adult Summit Evaluation Report

- Teen Summit Summary

Current Research:

- Chasing the High School Graduation Rate: Getting the Data We Need and Using it Right, by Paul E. Barton, ETS

- Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle the Dropout Crisis - Report from America's Promise - November 2008 (www.americaspromise.org/gradnation)

- IES Practice Guide - Dropout Prevention - September 2008 (http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/dp_pg_090308.pdf)

- Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program

"Dropout Risk Factors and Exemplary Programs: A Technical Report (C. Hammond, J. Smink, & S. Drew: National Dropout Prevention Center. D. Linton: Communities In Schools, Inc. May 2007)"

- Best Practices in Dropout Prevention

- What Your Community Can Do To End Its Drop Out Crisis


Mississippi Department of Education
Office of Dropout Prevention
359 North West Street
P. O. Box 771
Jackson, Mississippi 39205

 

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