Learn about early warning signs to determine if a
student is at-risk for dropping out.
How do you make sense of variations on defining
dropout?
Early Warning Signs
Defining Dropout
Best Practices in Dropout Prevention
Arkansas
Graduation Rates
Dropout prevention programming can increase earnings.
Arkansas has been significantly involved in the
American Diploma Project Network.
Impacting Instruction: Arkansas and
ADP
Dropout Prevention is Worth the Effort
The National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) developed
15 Effective Strategies for
dropout prevention and principal-specific strategies
for prevention. A Department of Education
checklist offers best practices while the Mississippi
approach to dropout prevention offers a
model for others to follow.
15 Effective Strategies
Seven Key Principles
Six Recommendations Checklist
A Model Approach: Dropout
Prevention in Mississippi
Funding Your Dropout Prevention
Program
Use this template to create dropout policies that may
foster a conversation with school
administrators. Data collection may begin with this
at-risk template or the school surveys
provided here.
(Note: to save a file, right-click on the link and
choose "Save target as")
Dropout Prevention Policy
Template (Microsoft Word template)
School Surveys
Community Personnel Survey
Parent Survey
Principals and Teachers Survey
Students Survey
Review additional dropout prevention literature and
learn more about related organizations
whose work may enrich efforts. View a video or download
a poster.
Recommended Reading List
Dropout Prevention
Organizations
Staying Power Video Download (Right
click and select "Save Target As")
Greater Graduation Post Summit Materials
