:: Indiana's High School Dropout Crisis

Presentations:

• Indiana High School Summit
  *CHE Presentation
  *Shelbyville High School Presentation
• In Their Own Words:  Focus Group Presentation
• Representative Luke Messer's Presentation to CHE--March 2006

Reports and Resources    

• A Legislative Primer--Tools for Dropout Prevention
• Identifying Potential Dropouts: Key Lessons for Building an Early Warning Data System
• Selected Bibliography on High School Dropout Literature
• Dropout Prevention Strategy Recommendations from the Indiana Education Roundtable’s P-16 Plan for Improving Student Achievement--- Adopted October 2003
• Dropouts Reported to the State by Reason Code (preliminary update) – Grades 7-12 - Indiana Department of Education, November 2005
• Issue Brief – What Students Need, Part 1 Dropout Prevention and Recovery – Prepared for the Louisiana High School Redesign Commission by The Ed Trust, May 2005
• Keeping Students in School – What Other States are Doing for At-Risk Students – Prepared by the Center for Innovation in Assessment, Indiana University, November 2005
• Making Good on a Promise:  What Policy Makers Can do to Support the Educational Persistence of Dropouts (Jobs for the Future)--April 2006
• The Dropout Crisis: Promising Approaches in Prevention and Recovery - Jobs for the Future, November 2005
• The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
  A report by Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation--March 2006.

In The News:

• Dropout Bill Deserves a Chance--Indianapolis Star Editorial (February 14, 2006)
• Dropout Nation--TIME cover story (April 11, 2006)
• Helping Dropouts with Carrot, Stick --Indianapolis Star (February 13, 2006)
• Indianapolis Star Dropout Series-- (May 2005)
• State Tackles Crisis; Time, Oprah take Notice--Indianapolis Star Editorial (April 11, 2006)

Data:

Of Every 100 Indiana 9th Graders, Only…	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	Public High School Graduation Rates in the United States	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
High School Graduation Comparison Rates by State and Race	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	Indiana Public High School Enrollment	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
Who Makes it Through High School	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	Snapshot: Enrollment Trends	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
Snapshot: Graduation Rates	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	The Cost of a High School Dropout	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
GED vs. High School Diploma	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	What do Indiana Dropouts Think?	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
2005 Legislation: House Enrollment Act 1794	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	HEA 1794 Continued	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
HEA 1794 Continued	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	2006 Legislation: HB 1347	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat
HB 1347 Continued	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat	HB 1347 Continued	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt  Adobe Acrobat
HB 1347 Continued	PowerPoint Slides- .ppt Adobe Acrobat

By The Numbers:                                                                      

• Nationally the public high school graduation rate has remained flat over the last decade, going from 72% in 1991 to 71% in 2002.
  Source: Greene, J.P. & Winters, M.A. Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991-2002. Education Working Paper, (8), February 2005, Manhattan Institute.
   
• There is a wide disparity in the public high school graduation rates of white and minority students. In 2002, approximately 78% of white students graduated from high school with a regular diploma, compared to 56% of African-American students and 52% of Hispanic students.
  Source: Greene, J.P. & Winters, M.A. Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991-2002. Education Working Paper, (8), February 2005, Manhattan Institute.
   
• Nationally, data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that the median annual earnings of high school dropouts are approximately $22,584, while that of high school graduates is $29,800. Completing high school raises average annual earnings by approximately $7,216. Additionally, high school dropouts earn substantially less over their lifetime ($200,000) than a high school graduate.
  Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Census, 2000.
   
• Over 25 to 30 years, a high school dropout can cost a community as much as $500,000 in public assistance, health care, and incarceration costs.
  Source: USA Today, June 18, 2003, Education Article pg. 6D.
   
• A National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) study found that in 1994, high school dropouts were more than 2 times as likely to receive public assistance as high school graduates who did not go on to college.
  Source: Smith, T. M., Young, B. A., Choy, S. P., Perie, M., Alsalam, N., Rollefson, M., et al. (1996). The Condition of Education 1996 (NCES Report No. 96-304). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
   
• High school dropouts account for nearly 1/2 of the heads-of-households on welfare.
  Source: Schwartz, W. (1995). School dropouts: New information about an old problem. ERIC Digest. New York: ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 386515).
   
• High school dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than high school graduates to be arrested during their lifetime. 80% of prisoners in America are high school dropouts.
  Source: National Dropout Prevention Network (2000). Study of Dropout Statistics.
   
• Social savings in terms of victim and property losses and incarceration can be realized through a reduction in high school dropouts. Estimates of the social benefits (social savings from reduced crime only) of a 1% increase in male U.S. high school graduation rates would amount to $1.4 billion. For each additional male graduate, social savings (from reduced crime only) is approximately $1,170 to $2,100 per year (ongoing).
  Source: Lochner, L. & Moretti, E. (2001). ‘The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports’, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, 8605.