dropout prevention
Keeping students enrolled
Dropout prevention refers to programs, policies, and interventions designed to keep students enrolled in school through graduation.
These efforts typically target at-risk students showing warning signs like poor attendance, failing grades, or disengagement: The district invested in dropout prevention through mentoring and tutoring programs.
Strategies range from early intervention in elementary school to credit recovery programs for struggling high schoolers.
- early interventionPrompt response to emerging problems
- tutoringIndividual academic guidance
- second-chanceRenewed opportunity after failing
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- mentorship programsStructured expert-novice pairings
counseling services · case manager · parent involvement · at-risk · falling behind · after-school programs · achievement gap · GED · high school diploma · peer support groups · wraparound · scholarship opportunities · compulsory education laws · personalized learning · re-enrollment · remedial education · credit recovery · summer school
- Education Policyeducation policy, education reform, education laws, education funding, education budget
- education reformeducation reform, school reform, curriculum reform, Common Core, No Child Left Behind
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
- Student Retentiongraduation rates, academic advising, tutoring, mentoring, early warning systems
- youth interventionyouth programs, youth centers, youth counseling, youth empowerment, youth courts
- youth policyyouth advocacy, youth councils, youth voice, youth leadership, youth employment
dropout preventionexpulsion
Forced permanent removal
pushing out · pushout · zero tolerance policies · suspension · school-to-prison pipeline
dropout preventionneglect
Failure to provide care
indifference · abandonment · inaction · benign neglect · non-intervention