Dropout Prevention

This page highlights resources which discuss the problem of and prevention of teenage dropout, including how service-learning helps to lower the dropout rate. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.

NSLC-Produced Resources

• Dropout Prevention and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
• Dropout Prevention and Service-Learning

NSLC Library Items 

• Raising Their Voices: Engaging Students, Teachers, and Parents to Help End the High School Dropout Epidemic (2010) (PDF)
  
• Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle the Dropout Crisis (2009) (PDF)
• On the Front Lines of Schools: Perspectives of Teachers and Principals on the High School Dropout Problem (2009) (PDF)
• Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path: A Policy and Practice Brief (2009) (PDF)
• Bouncing Back: Strengthening Resilience Through Service-Learning (2008)
• Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation (2008) (PDF)
• Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention (2008) (PDF)
  
• Keeping Youth in School - How Service-Learning Can Help! [PowerPoint] (2008) (PDF)
• Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth (2006) (PDF)
• Fifteen Effective Strategies for Improving Student Attendance and Truancy Prevention (2005) (PDF)
• The Promise of Service-Learning (2007) (PDF)
• Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention (2004)
  

SLICE Ideas and Examples

• ROAR: Reaching Out As Role-Models (K-12)

Related Websites

• National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
• America's Promise Alliance: Grad Nation
  
• Communities in Schools
  
• U.S. Department of Education: High School Graduation Initiative