Research
- The Costs of Dropping Out
A new report by researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University explores the economic prospects for youth who don't graduate from high school and the ripple effects for employers and the city.
View: press release and report.
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The Economic Benefits from Halving Philadelphia's Dropout Rate - Released by the Alliance for Excellence in Education, this report takes a regional view, incorporating the 11 county area including Philadelphia.
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Fighting the Dropout Crisis - Philadelphia's progress in addressing the dropout rate is featured in a Washington Monthly special issue.
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Mobilizing a Cross-Sector Collaborative for Systemic Change: Lessons from Project U-Turn, Philadelphia's Campaign to Reduce the Dropout Rate - A January 2010 report from Jobs for the Future profiles Project U-Turn.
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Resource list from the African American and Latino Male Dropout Taskforce
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Summary of New Research on the Relationships Between Philadelphians' Educational Attainment and their Employment, Earnings and Contributions to Government and Society
Reviews three recently-released research reports commissioned through Project U-Turn.
- Brown, Dave F. "Urban Teachers' Professed Classroom Management Strategies: Reflections of Culturally Responsive Teaching." Urban Education 39 (2004): 266-289. An examination of culturally responsive teaching, effective methods and preparation for those entering into an urban classroom setting.
- Calkins, Andrew, Guenther, William, Belfiore, Grace and Lash, Dave. "The Turnaround Challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst performing schools." A framework for reforming underperforming schools.
- Cartledge, Gwendolyn and Ya-yu Lo. "Teaching in Urban Schools: Eleven Principles Toward Effective Outcomes." Teaching in Urban Schools (2006). A discussion of successful practices for increasing success for urban students while also decreasing special education and disciplinary referrals.
- Clark, Mary Ann, Sang Min Lee, William Goodman and Summer Yacco. "Examining Male Underachievement in Public Education." NASSP Bulletin 92 (2008): 111-132. A mixed methods study of the gender differentiation in educational attainment.
- Fry, Richard. "Hispanic youth dropping out of U.S. schools: Measuring the challenge." The Pew Hispanic Center, Washington, DC (2003) Research highlighting the current drop out issue and distortion of Hispanic students' current place in the education system.
- Honora, Detris. "Urban African American Adolescents and School Identification." Urban Education 38 (2003): 58-76. An examination of low-income youths' perspective on teachers and the school system as a whole.
- Lewis, Chance W, Marlon James, Stephen Hancock and Valerie Hill-Jackson. "Framing African American Student Success and Failure in Urban Settings." Urban Education 43 (2008): 127-153. An attempt to understand African American students' struggles within the education system as well as efforts to close the achievement gap and ultimately attain higher academic success rates.
- Lewis, Chance W. and James L. Moore, III. "African American Students in K-12 Urban Educational Settings" Urban Education 43 (2008): 123-126
A look at the current public school system with regard to urban education settings.
- Long, Joyce F., Shinichi Monoi, Brian Harper, Dee Knoblauch, and P. Karen Murphy. "Academic Motivation and Achievement Among Urban Adolescents." Urban Education 42 (2007): 196-222 A 2-year cross-sectional study of eighth and ninth grade urban students' motivations and GPA.
- Maryland Partnership for Teaching and Learning. Report of the Task Force on the Education of Maryland's African American Males. 2007. An evaluation of Maryland's current progress in increasing academic achievement for African American males.
- Mac Iver, Martha A. and Mac Iver, Douglas J. "Beyond The Indicators: An Integrated School-Level Approach to Dropout Prevention." Arlington, VA: The Mid_atlantic Equity Center, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education (2009) The following report examines why youth drop out of secondary education, how to create a dropout prevention strategy as well as provides a successful pilot.
- Milner, Richard H. "African American Males in Urban Schools: No Excuses—Teach and Empower." Urban Education (2007): 239-246 This article calls for a new approach to urban education and specifically for reform of the educational approach to engage African American youth.
- Moore, James L., Malik S. Henfield, and Delila Owens. "African American Males in Special Education: Their Attitudes and Perceptions Toward High School Counselors and School Counseling Services." American Behavioral Scientist 51 (2008): 907-927. This article draws from the findings of a study which interviewed 10 African American males in special education gauging their perspectives on school counselors and overall available counseling services.
- Neild, Ruth C. and Balfanz, Robert. "Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia's Dropout Crisis, 2000-2005." A report examining and defining Philadelphia's dropout crisis.
- Noguera, Pedro. "The Trouble With Black Boys." Urban Education 38 (2003): 431-459. This article examines the cultural and environmental factors impacting the educational attainment of African American youth.
- School District of Philadelphia. "Imagine 2014: Building a System of Great Schools." Five-Year Strategic Plan. (2009) The School District of Philadelphia's Strategic Plan with a five year perspective.
- Schott Foundation for Public Education. "A Positive Future for Black Boys: Building the Movement." 2006.
A report on the current status of African American youth in the education system.
- Tate, William IV. "The Political Economy of Teacher Quality in School Mathematics: African American Males, Opportunity Structures, Politics and Method." American Behavioral Scientist 51 (2008): 953-971.
An effort to define quality teaching in mathematics and exploring the correlation to African Americans current academic success and struggles.
- Watson, Dyan, Megin Charner-Laird, Cheryl L. Kirkpatrick, Stacy Agee Szczesiul and Pamela J. Gordon. "Effective Teaching/Effective Urban Teaching: Grappling with Definitions, Grappling with Difference." Journal of Teacher Education 57 (2006): 395-409.
An article that explores 17 novice teachers' perspectives on effective education highlighting the dichotomy in how this differs from effective urban education.
