Beyond the Indicators provides an integrated framework that schools and districts can use to build a foundation to prevent students from dropping out.  Based on a tiered public health model, this framework provides universal and school-wide practices designed to produce high attendance, positive behavior, and successful academic achievement for the majority of students.  It includes implementing early warning systems that identify students at risk of dropping out, and tiered interventions to insure that struggling students stay on track to graduate.

This report (August 2009) summarizes the research on why students drop out of school, explains the research implications for how to create an integrated dropout prevention strategy, and highlights an innovative pilot project that yielded results in a matter of months—a how-to example that works.

(June 15, 2009) includes background information on developing an indicator system to identify students at-risk of dropping out, but goes beyond identification to offer a multi-tiered approach to keeping students in schools.

Audio File: Audio-Beyond_the_Indicators.mp3

This report, along with a Q&A with the experts, is available on the Mid Atlantic Equity Center Website here, and available here in pdf.