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Urban CEO Superintendents’ Alternative Strategies in Reducing School Dropouts

Texas A&M University

Virginia Collier

Texas A&M University

The focus is on strategies used by 10 urban districts to reduce school dropouts. Thirty-eight strategies for dropout prevention were identified. Although the majority identified dropout prevention strategies, only two districts referred to "recovery programs." If district spokespersons mentioned their CEOs using a systems approach in reducing dropouts, the program plans were more specific and recovery programs more active. A surprise was the silence about instructional initiatives for early grade intervention and dropout prevention. The most common prevention strategy was punitive measures involving the criminal justice system, that is, police departments, district attorneys. Thus, it is not surprising that the dropout rate in several of these cities remains unabated during the past 5 years.

Key Words: dropout prevention strategies • urban CEOs and systems leadership • urban schools

Education and Urban Society, Vol. 39, No. 1, 69-90 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0013124506291983


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