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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2011. High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13035.
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Workshop Agenda and Participants

AGENDA

October 23, 2008

9:45 am

Welcome, Overview of the Workshop

Robert Hauser, National Research Council, Washington, DC, and University of Wisconsin, Madison, Chair

Why are indicators of dropout and completion rates important for policy and practice?

Moderator: Elaine Allensworth, Consortium on Chicago School Research (committee member)

10:00

Presentations

  • Dan Losen, Civil Rights Project

  • Richard Rothstein, Economics Policy Institute

  • Delegate Ana Sol Gutiérrez, Maryland State Legislature

11:30

Break

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2011. High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13035.
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11:45

Discussants/Reactors

How are these rates used? What are the challenges associated with collecting the needed data?

 

  • Mel Riddile, National Association of Secondary School Principals

  • Jeanine Hildreth, Baltimore City Schools

  • Noelle Ellerson, American Association of School Administrators

12:15 pm

Discussion with the Committee

Discussion Leader: Russell Rumberger, University of California, Santa Barbara (committee member)

 

What are the key points the committee should consider in making recommendations about these rates?

12:45

Working lunch to continue discussion of key issues

Calculating the rates: What decisions are required, what data are required, what are the different ways of calculating the rates, and what are their strengths and weaknesses?

Moderator: Lavan Dukes, Florida Department of Education (committee member)

1:45

Presentations

  • Elaine Allensworth

  • J. Rob Warren, University of Minnesota (committee member)

2:45

Break

3:00

Discussants

Aaron Pallas, Teachers College, Columbia University

Chris Swanson, Editorial Projects in Education

3:40

Discussion with the Committee

Discussion Leader: Robert Hauser

 

What are the key points the committee should consider in making recommendations about these rates?

4:30

Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2011. High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13035.
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October 24, 2008

8:30 am

Working continental breakfast to review goals of workshop

9:00

Welcome, Overview of the Day’s Plan

Robert Hauser

How can states build and maintain robust longitudinal data systems for collecting the requisite data to compute these indicators and to improve these outcomes?

Moderator: Rob Warren

9:15

Presentations

  • Nancy Smith, Data Quality Campaign

  • Lavan Dukes

  • Wesley Bruce, Indiana Department of Education

  • Bill Smith, Sioux Falls School District, SD (by phone)

  • Robert Curtin, Massachusetts Department of Education

11:00

Break

11:15

Discussants

Deborah Newby, U.S. Department of Education

Robin Taylor, Delaware Department of Education

11:45

Discussion with the Committee

Discussion Leader: Robert Hauser

 

What are the key points the committee should consider in making recommendations about these rates?

12:15 pm

Working lunch to continue discussion of key issues

How can the data from these systems be used to improve policy and practice?

Moderator: Lavan Dukes

1:15

Presentations

  • Russell Rumberger

  • Robert Balfanz, Johns Hopkins University

2:15

Discussants

David Wakelyn, National Governors Association

Ana Sol Gutiérrez, Maryland State Legislature

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2011. High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13035.
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3:00

Discussion with the Committee

Discussion Leader: Elaine Allensworth

 

What are the key points the committee should consider in making recommendations about these rates?

3:30

Break

3:45

Synthesis of main messages

Discussion Leader: Robert Hauser

4:30

Adjourn

PARTICIPANTS

Elaine Allensworth, Consortium on Chicago School Research

Alyssa Alston, Council of Chief State School Officers

Jason Amos, Alliance for Excellent Education

Robert Balfanz, Johns Hopkins University

James Bergeron, U.S. Congress, House Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Wesley Bruce, Indiana Department of Education

Mike Casserly, Council of Greater City Schools

Christopher Chapman, U.S. Department of Education

Robert Curtin, Massachusetts Department of Education

Elizabeth Demarest, SRI

G. Lavan Dukes, Florida Department of Education

Mark Dynarski, Mathematica

Noelle Ellerson, American Association of School Administrators

Stuart Elliott, National Research Council

Meredith Farace, U.S. Department of Education

Michael Feuer, National Research Council

Rebecca Fitch, U.S. Department of Education

Daria Hall, Education Trust

Andrew Halpern-Manners, University of Minnesota

Robert Hauser, National Research Council, and University of Wisconsin, Madison

Kati Haycock, Education Trust

Jeanine Hildreth, Baltimore City Schools

David Hoff, Education Week

Lee Hoffman, U.S. Department of Education

Judith Koenig, National Research Council

Dan Losen, Civil Rights Project, University of California, Los Angeles

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2011. High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13035.
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Lawrence Mishel, Economics Policy Institute

Patricia Morison, National Research Council

Deborah Newby, U.S. Department of Education

Lynn Olsen, Education Week

Aaron Pallas, Teachers College, Columbia University

Lyndsay Pinkus, Alliance for Excellent Education

Mel Riddile, National Association of Secondary School Principals

Richard Rothstein, Economics Policy Institute

Russell Rumberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

Bill Smith, Sioux Falls School District, South Dakota (by phone)

Nancy Smith, Data Quality Campaign

Ana Sol Gutiérrez, Maryland State Legislature

Andrea Solarz, National Academy of Education

Chris Swanson, Editorial Projects in Education

Robin Taylor, Delaware Department of Education

David Wakelyn, National Governors Association

John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota

Gregory White, National Academy of Education

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2011. High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13035.
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High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may seem like a straightforward task, their calculation is in fact quite complicated. How does one count a student who leaves a regular high school but later completes a GED? How does one count a student who spends most of his/her high school years at one school and then transfers to another? If the student graduates, which school should receive credit? If the student drops out, which school should take responsibility?

High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates addresses these issues and to examine (1) the strengths, limitations, accuracy, and utility of the available dropout and completion measures; (2) the state of the art with respect to longitudinal data systems; and (3) ways that dropout and completion rates can be used to improve policy and practice.

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