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Velma Cobb, Director of the Region II Equity Assistance Center, and Jan Phlegar, Director of State Relations for REL-NEI, participate in a Policy Challenges Webinar on dropout prevention.

Policy Challenges Webinar: Bridging Research and Practice: Six Recommendations to Address Dropout Prevention (110 min.)

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In this webinar co-hosted with the Region II Equity Assistance Center (EAC), Dr. Russell Rumberger, Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented six research-based recommendations for reducing dropout rates from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Practice Guide on Dropout Prevention, which he co-authored.

Dr. Russell Rumberger, UC-Santa Barbara

Jill Weber, REL-NEI Director

He also discussed how district and school administrators can overcome barriers to the recommendations and implement them. Dr. Rumberger’s research interests focus on school dropouts, school mobility, educational underachievement of ethnic and language minority students, and school effectiveness.

Following Dr. Rumberger’s presentation, a small panel of discussants—including a district superintendent, a REL-NEI researcher, and a state-level education administrator—described their own work on dropout prevention, linking it to the Practice Guide recommendations. The webinar drew over 130 participants, many of whom used an online chat room to comment on the presentation and submit questions to the presenters.

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Presenters:

• Dr. Russell Rumberger, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara; Director of the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute; and co-author of the IES Practice Guide on Dropout Prevention
• Jill Weber, Director, REL-NEI; Co-Moderator
• Velma Cobb, Director, EAC; Co-Moderator
• Jan Phlegar, Director, Learning Innovations at WestEd; Panel Chair
• Paul Leather, Director, Division of Career Technology and Adult Learning, New Hampshire Department of Education; Panelist
• Dr. Judith Johnson, Superintendent, Peekskill City School District, New York State; Panelist
• Dr. Lydia O’Donnell, Vice President, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC); Project Leader, REL-NEI; Panelist

More Information:

Supporting Resources:

• IES Practice Guide: Dropout Prevention
• Dropout Prevention Recommendations Checklist Assessment (from the IES Practice Guide)
• Evidence-Based Resources on Dropout Prevention (compiled by the REL-NEI Reference Desk)
• New Hampshire Dropout Rates, 2007–2008
• New Hampshire Senate Bill 18 (2007)
• New Hampshire Vision for High School Redesign
• Crosswalk of Documents Informing Dropout Prevention for use by New Hampshire Educators
• New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunities Brochure

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