Updating a Searchable Database of Dropout Prevention Programs and Policies in Nine Low-Income Urban School Districts in the Northeast and Islands Region

Title:	Updating a Searchable Database of Dropout Prevention Programs and Policies in Nine Low-Income Urban School Districts in the Northeast and Islands Region
Description:	This technical brief describes updates to a database of dropout prevention programs and policies in 2006/07 created by the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands and described in the Issues & Answers report, Piloting a searchable database of dropout prevention programs in nine low-income urban school districts in the Northeast and Islands Region (Myint-U et al. 2009). To update the database, a key informant from each of the nine pilot districts was interviewed on the status and characteristics of the dropout prevention pro-grams and policies in 2010/11. Based on this new information, this brief classifies programs and policies as new, discontinued, or sustained since 2006/07, the years in which programs were included in the database (Myint-U et al. 2009). The term active is used to refer to the combination of new and sustained programs and policies—that is, all programs and policies being implemented in 2010/11.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (1.9MB)
Cover Date:	February 2012
Web Release:	February 9, 2012
Publication #:	REL 2012020
Center/Program:	REL
Authors:	Athi Myint-U, Lydia O’Donnell, and Dawna Phillips: Education Development Center, Inc.
Type of Product:	Technical Brief
Keywords:	Databases Dropout Rates • Dropout prevention Schools • in urban locations
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Technical Brief, please contact: Erin Pollard.