New Report on Drop-out Prevention

by Clay Burell · 2009-05-20 18:48:00 UTC
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The folks at IssueLab have a new report up that might be of interest around now: "Portland Public Schools: From Data and Decisions to Implementation and Results on Dropout Prevention".

They write:

"The report is relevant to a pretty broad audience of teachers, administrators and researchers. It tries to answer the question 'How do you keep kids in school through graduation?' by first answering the question, 'Is our data about dropout rates even accurate?' It then goes on to follow the story of how Portland's Public School system went on to implement some pretty common sensical interventions  - all within a very short timeline and limited budget. In fact the whole effort was spearheaded two years ago in May when classes were ready to graduate and teachers were ready for some time off. Unlike a lot of other data-heavy reports it really doubles as a case study in what can happen when administrators and educators act with some urgency.

"The report makes some pretty strong arguments about the importance of data-informed decision making as well as how critical it is make interventions easy enough for school district leaders to carry out while flexible enough for teachers to customize."

Any Portlanders out there with an on-the-ground take on this one?

Clay Burell
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