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| Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, May 2008. Our bibliographies strive to provide the most useful resources on a topic, with links to online full text items and downloadable PDFs when those are available. Library items may be borrowed from the Clearinghouse by Learn and Serve America grantees and subgrantees. For additional resources on these and other service-learning topics, visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse at www.servicelearning.org. |
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| Resources on Dropout Prevention | ||
| Balfanz, Robert, and Nettie Legters. Locating the Dropout Crisis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7475 Bridgeland, John M., John J. DiIulio, Jr., and Karen Burke Morison. The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts. Washington, DC: Civic Enterprises, 2006. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7242 Fry, Richard. Hispanic Youth Dropping out of U.S. Schools: Measuring the Challenge. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, 2003. http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/19.pdf Greene, Jay P, and Winters, Marcus A. Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates. New York, NY: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2006. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/cr_48.pdf Hammond, Cathy, Dan Linton, Jay Smink, and Sam Drew. Dropout Risk Factors and Exemplary Programs: A Technical Report. Alexandria, VA: Communities in Schools, 2007. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7643 Jerald, Craig D. Identifying Potential Dropouts: Key Lessons for Building an Early Warning Data System. Washington, DC: Achieve, 2006. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7637 Reimer, Mary, and Jay Smink. Information About the School Dropout Issue: Selected Facts & Statistics. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, 2005. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6554 Steinberg, Adria, and Cheryl A. Almeida. Raising Graduation Rates in an Era of High Standards: Five Commitments for State Action. Washington, DC: Achieve, 2008. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7638 Steinberg, Adria, Cassius Johnson, and Hilary Pennington. Addressing America’s Dropout Challenge: State Efforts to Boost Graduation Rates Require Federal Support. Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2006. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7636 Swanson, Christopher B. Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation. Alexandria, VA: America’s Promise, 2008. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7501 |
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| Resources on Service-Learning & Dropout Prevention | ||
| Billig, Shelley H., and Stephany Brown. Linking Service-Learning and No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Title I, Part H: School Dropout Prevention. Denver, CO: RMC Research Corporation, 2002. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6083 Bridgeland, John M. “Promise of Service-Learning.” In Growing to Greatness 2007. St. Paul, MN: National Youth Leadership Council, 2007. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7243 Bridgeland, John M., John J. DiIulio, and Stuart C. Wulsin. Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention. Washington, DC: Civic Enterprises, 2008. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7540 Carter, Kathryn Gibson. Hooking Out-of-School Youth Through Service Learning. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, 1998. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=1885 Civic Enterprises. Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention [PowerPoint slides]. Washington, DC: Civic Enterprises, 2008. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7541 Communities in Schools. Addressing America's Dropout Crisis: 2005-2006 Results from the CIS Network. Alexandria, VA: Communities in Schools, 2007. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7642 Duckenfield, Marty, and Scott Brown. Partners in Prevention: Involving College Students in Dropout Prevention. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, 1997. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=2136 Duckenfield, Marty, and Lorilei Swanson. Service Learning: Meeting the Needs of Youth At Risk. A Dropout Prevention Research Report. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, 1992. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=2138 Martin, Nancy, and Samuel Halperin. Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth. Washington, DC: American Youth Policy Forum, 2006. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6651 Shumer, Robert D. Community Based Learning: a Study of a Model Dropout Prevention Program. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Atlanta, GA, April 12-16, 1993). http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=3634 Smink, Jay, and Mary S. Reiner. Research Report: Fifteen Effective Strategies for Improving Student Attendance and Truancy Prevention. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, 2005. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6495 Smink, and Schargel, (Eds.). Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, 2004. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6054 | ||
| Journals | ||
| The Journal of At-Risk Issues. The Journal of At-Risk Issues is published by the National Dropout Prevention Center and the National Dropout Prevention Network. It is a nationally refereed journal, published twice a year. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=5225 The International Journal on School Disaffection. This journal addresses the issues and theories surrounding disaffection and the wide range of effective approaches and strategies, individualized and structural, being used around the world to keep children from dropping out of school. The purpose of the journal is to explore and share strategies and solutions that work globally, and to provide current and valid information about the issues relating to school disaffection and dropout prevention. http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7611 | ||
| Links | ||
| America’s Promise Alliance – High School Dropout Prevention http://www.americaspromise.org/APAPage.aspx?id=9172 American Youth Policy Forum http://www.aypf.org/projects/dropoutrecovery.htm California Dropout Research Project http://www.lmri.ucsb.edu/dropouts/index.htm Communities in Schools http://www.cisnet.org/ National Dropout Prevention Center/Network http://www.dropoutprevention.org/ The Silent Epidemic http://www.silentepidemic.org/ U.S. Department of Education – School Dropout Prevention Program http://www.ed.gov/programs/dropout/index.html |
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