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This research is monitored by The US Department of Education, Office of the Inspector General. This particular grant program provides funding to State Education Agency, and/or the local school districts. These funds are used for research-based and coordinated school dropout prevention programs for students in grades 6–12. [2]
Research has shown that poor academic achievement is one of the strongest predictors of high school dropout. [6] This theory examines the mediation effect of poor academic achievement on other factors, such as deviant affiliation, personal deviance, family socialization and structural strains, associated with school dropout. [6]
They state that it is the only dropout prevention program in the nation with scientific evidence to prove that it can increase graduation rates. They also state that their model results in a higher percentage of students reaching proficiency in fourth- and eighth- grade reading and mathematics, when implemented with high fidelity.
After introducing medically assisted treatment in 2013, Seppala saw Hazelden’s dropout rate for opiate addicts in the new revamped program drop dramatically. Current data, which covers between January 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014, shows a dropout rate of 7.5 percent compared with the rate of 22 percent for the opioid addicts not in the program.
This rate is different from the event dropout rate and related measures of the status completion and average freshman completion rates. [8] The status high school dropout rate in 2009 was 8.1%. [7] There are many risk factors for high school dropout. These can be categorized into social and academic risk factors.
Modeled after the Dropout Prevention Summits, the community summits were designed to inspire local collaboration and action to raise high school graduation rates. [49] Summits have been hosted in major cities like Chicago, Boston, [50] and Philadelphia, as well as smaller cities and rural areas in North Carolina, [51] Northwest Indiana, and ...
2Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Tucson, AZ, USA 3Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA 4Department of Chemistry and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, WI, USA 5Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Diploma Plus' dropout prevention model has also gained the attention of several states known to have notoriously poor graduation rates in their urban centers. The program was named a New Effective School Option in the National Governor's Association, "Achieving Graduation for All: A Governor’s Guide to Dropout Prevention and Recovery". [8]