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Topics: Education, dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk, college readiness

Graduation Alliance started and thrives with the passion for having students reach their full potential.

Topics: Education, dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk, college readiness

These tests and tools for predicting at-risk students may put us out of the dropout recovery business. Thank goodness.

Topics: Education, dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk, scholarcentric, sel

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk

How do you teach vital life skills like developing purpose, making goals, staying motivated in the face of adversity, self-efficacy, and social connectedness?

That’s a question we recently put to Dr. Scott Solberg, a professor of counseling psychology and applied human development at Boston University, and Graduation Alliance’s resident expert on social-emotional learning.

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk

Jonathan didn’t know how to set goals.

 

That might seem strange to some folks — goal-setting is just a matter of picking something you want and going after it, right? But educators understand that, for many young people, attaching an objective to the steps needed to achieve that objective is as foreign as another language.

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk

Jessica was a straight-A student. She always attended school. Her behavior was excellent.

But we knew she was at risk of dropping out.

 

We knew before her teachers knew. We knew before her parents knew. We even knew before Jessica knew.

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk

Wow. The response to our campaign to share some easy-to-monitor indicators for potentially at-risk students is going far better than we could have expected. Across the country, educators have been asking for our new tip sheet, and engaging with us about their ideas for how to better “see” potentially at-risk students before they’re even at-risk.

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk

It’s common sense, really: Students who habitually eke out passing grades in middle school and the early years of high school are more likely to fail to receive credit in a class down the road.

And in periods in which the incidence of dropping out increases — the junior and senior cohort years — a failure to earn credit for a class can be a major factor in a student’s decision to leave school before graduation.

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk

Research demonstrates that socioeconomic factors, the strength of parental relationships, non-cognitive skills development, and the presence of adult responsibilities in a student’s life can all be predictive of a student’s chances of dropping out.

Topics: dropout prevention, indicators of students at-risk