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Risk Issues in Cultural and Linguistic
Diversity:
Sources and Resources
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION: A BRIEF HISTORY AND RESEARCH SYNTHESIS.
(2002). Project FORUM, National Association of State Directors of Special Education
(Cheryl M. Lange & Sandra J. Sletten) - Reviews the history and context of several types of alternative schools; the populations they serve; outcomes for students; and implications for policy and practice. Full text.
http://www.nasdse.org/FORUM/alternative_ed_history.pdf
KEEPING COUNT AND LOSING COUNT: CALCULATING GRADUATION RATES FOR ALL STUDENTS UNDER NCLB ACCOUNTABILITY. (August 2003). The Urban Institute (Christopher B. Swanson) - Argues that national graduation rates are much lower than the 85 to 90 percent estimated by the National Center for Education Statistics and others. Using a new indicator that he developed, the author believes that some States' graduation rates fall below 55 for the average student. Further, even in many high-performing States, students from disadvantaged minority groups often graduate at rates as much as 20 to 30 percent lower than white and Asian students. Executive summary and full text.
http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=410843
NATIONAL CENTER ON EDUCATION, DISABILITY, AND JUVENILE JUSTICE,
University of Maryland at College Park - Conducts technical assistance, training and research and prepares publications on delinquency prevention, education services in detention and correction facilities, and transition/aftercare services. Links are provided to papers from the center and from other sources.
http://www.edjj.org
NATIONAL DROPOUT PREVENTION CENTER, Clemson University - A research center and resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reshape school and community environments to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations so that they receive the quality education and services necessary to succeed academically and graduate from high school. The Model Program pages contain a database of instructional programs in reading, math, and other subjects/skills, as well as 155 dropout prevention models. It is possible to search the database by race/ethnicity of populations for which programs were developed.
http://www.dropoutprevention.org/
NATIONAL STUDY OF DELINQUENCY PREVENTION IN SCHOOLS. (2000). Gottfredson Associates, Inc., under a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice (Gary
D. Gottfredson, Denise S. Gottfredson, Ellen R. Czeh, Gottfredson Associates, & David Cantor, Scott B. Cross, & Irene Hantman, Westat) - This major study examined
(a) school-based interventions, behavior management programs, and problems in their evaluation; (b) the nature of behavior problems in schools and safety in secondary schools; (d) activities to create and maintain safe and orderly schools. Full text.
http://www.gottfredson.com/national.htm
TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH (OR NOT) ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION:
NEW STATE DATA. (December 2003). The Education Trust - A state-by-state analysis
of graduation rates that shows that many States did not report complete and useful data,
particularly on the numbers of low-income and minority students who graduated. Full text.
http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/4DE8F2E0-4D08-4640-B3B0-013F6DC3865D/0/tellingthetruthgradrates.pdf
THE GROWING NUMBER OF KIDS IN SEVERELY DISTRESSED NEIGHBORHOODS:
EVIDENCE FROM THE 2000 CENSUS. (October 2003). Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau (William O'Hare & Mark Mather) -- Describes changes between 1990 and 2000 in the proportion of U.S. children living in severely distressed neighborhoods, according to four criteria of the Population Reference Bureau. Includes racial/ethnic distributions, data on 100 large metro areas, and State-by-State data. Full text.
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/distressed_neighborhoods.pdf
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