America’s “dropout factories,” a mere 15 percent of public high schools, produce more than half of the dropouts and have proven immune to several generations of reform. States must identify these schools, and then create the conditions, capacity, and resources to turn them around, Seltzer says.
High school dropouts do not develop overnight, the report notes. Indeed, research has identified specific “early warning” indicators, such as sporadic attendance and failing core academic classes in middle school or 9th grade. States need to support districts’ efforts to gather and act on this data before it is too late, JFF researchers say.
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