Transcript Dropout Prevention - West Virginia Department of Education

Shelly DeBerry
West Virginia Department of Education
Office of School Improvement
Student Success Advocate
[email protected]
304-558-3199
“Every school-day in America, 171
school buses loaded with children
leave school never to return. That is
our daily dropout rate.”
(National Center for Education Statistics, 2004. Dropout Rates in the United States: 2001)
Approximately, 7000 students are
expected to dropout of school in
West Virginia this year.
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How does WV Rate?
• In 2006, West Virginia had a teen pregnancy rate of
44.9 per 1,000 teenage girls, which placed the state
16th in the nation.
• Birth rates for young teenagers aged 15–17 declined
in 31 states during 2007–2009
• Birth rates increased significantly for only one state
from 2007 through 2009, West Virginia, by 17 percent.
NCHS Data Brief ■ No. 58 ■ February 2011
What’s the Cost?
• Teen pregnancies cost the nation
about $9.1 billion a year, according to
the CDC.
• Other Cost of Dropouts
Students Who Earn
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Long Term Effects
Over the course of his or her lifetime,
a high school dropout earns, on
average, about $260,000 less than a
high school graduate.
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Increasing the graduation rate and college
matriculation of male students in the
United States by just 5 percent could lead
to combined savings and revenue of
almost $8 billion each year by reducing
crime-related costs.
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If the United States‘ likely dropouts
from the Class of 2006 had graduated,
the nation could have saved more than
$17 billion in Medicaid and
expenditures for uninsured health
care over the course of those young
people‘s lifetimes.
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Correlations with Dropping
out of School
 70 % of young women who gave birth within 4
years of starting high school also left before
graduating.
 They represent 32.8 % of dropouts ands 18.7% of
all student enrolled in school.
 70% of students who had substantiated case of
abuse and neglect during the high school years,
who had a foster care placement, or who had given
birth within four years of starting high school,
dropped out in Philadelphia.
(Neild Y Balfanz, 2006)
Teen Pregnancy
 Teen girls in the bottom 20% of basic reading
and math skills are five times more likely to
become mothers over a two-year high school
period than teen girls in the top 20%
 Male and female students with low academic
achievement are twice as likely to become
parents by their senior year of high school
compared to students with high academic
achievement.
National Dropout Prevention
Center/Network
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Children of Teenagers
• More likely to repeat grades
• Do worse on standardized tests
• Less likely to complete high school
(Reitzi, 2005)
National Dropout Prevention
Center/Network
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