What Your Community Can do to End its Dropout Crisis: Learnings from Research and Practice. A study by Robert Balfanz, Center for Social Organization of Schools, prepared for the National Summit on America's Silent Epidemic.

Keeping Youth In School: How Service Learning Can Help. An overview of service learning from the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network.

Ready by 21 Challenge: 
    
    Ready by 21 Forum for Youth Investment
    2-page PDF Summary
    2-Page Quality Counts Microsoft Word Summary
    Youth Program Quality Improvement System
    Youth Program Quality Assessment
    Action Plan #2

Out of School Time

Out-of-School Time  (Data from the Harvard Family Research Project)
The Wallace Foundation
The Alternative High School Initiative
National League of Cities Youth Education and Families Institute (YEF)

Helpful Links:

15 in 5 Campaign Network
Alliance for Excellent Education
American Diploma Project
America's Promise
Emerging Workforce Initiative
The Harvard Family Research Project
Louisville Education and Employment Project
National Dropout Prevention Centers 
National Education Association (NEA) on Dropout Prevention: Make High School Prevention a National Priority
The Schargel Consulting Group
WhenYouWere15

Articles, Reports & other Useful Links:

• LEEP Overview of Local Dropout Prevention Effort
• Closing the Gap in Third Grade Reading Levels: Lessons from Three Inner City Elementary Schools
• Crafting a New Vision for High School: How States Can Join Academic and Technical Studies to Promote More Powerful Learning
• AT&T Aspire Initiative
• Creating High Impact Non-Profits
• What Works Clearinghouse Dropuout Prevention Intervention Report 2006-2007
• NEA Plan for Reducing the School Dropout Rate
• The Silent Epidemic Blueprint
• The Silent Epidemic 10-Point Plan
• Prepared Testimony of Laura Shubilla President of the Philadelphia Youth Network to Philadelphia City Council's Commitee on Labor and Civil Service
• Supporting High Quality Career and Technical Education through Federal and State Policy
• An Action Agenda for Improving America's High Schools. Summit Report Sponsored by Achieve, Inc. and the National Governors Association
• Advancing High School Reform in the States: Policies and Programs. Report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals
• Closing the Expectations Gap. An Annual 50-State Progress Report on the Alignment og High School Policies with the Demand of College and Work.
• The High School Dropout's Economic Ripple Effects: Mayors Go Door to Door, Personally Encouraging Students to Stay in the Game for Their Own Good, and for the Sake of the City
• Secretary Spellings Announces Final Regulations to Strengthen No Child Left Behind Act

News Links

• Chicago District Focusing on Pathways to College
• Students Likely to Fail the High School Exit Exam can be Identified as Early as the 4th Grade, Study Says
• Pittsburg Public Schools Introduce Full-Service Education
• AT&T Pledges $100 Million to Combat School Dropout Problem
• Will Raising the Age Limit Lower the Dropout Rate?
• U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula
• States' Data Obscure How to Finish High School
• The Next Kind of Integration: Class is Replacing Race as the Primary Basis for Desegregating School

Summits and Initiatives in Other States/Cities

CHICAGO

• Building an Alliance to Support Chicago Youth
• CPS Graduation Pathways Strategy
• Chicago Summit Agenda

INDIANAPOLIS   

• Common Goal Initiative of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce

 COLORADO

• Dropout Prevention Commission 

IOWA

• Iowa's Dropout Prevention Summit

Articles About Louisville's Summit

Lunch with Bob Wise
Community Help Sought To Reduce the Dropout Rate
Mayor's Remarks
Louisville Hosts Dropout Prevention Summit
Louisville Mayor and Superintendent Team Up to Reduce Number of High School Dropouts

Articles About Local Partners

Junior Achievement (JA) Program Begins to Connect Dots for Area 9th Graders

Please see the Data and Committees pages for more information.