BE021337: No More Excuses: The Final Report of the Hispanic Dropout Project.

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98 p.

Abstract:

In September 1995, the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, invited seven people to take part in a special project to study issues related to the problem of Hispanic student dropout. The Hispanic Dropout Project had three broad goals: (1) to increase public awareness about the issues of Hispanic dropout; (2) to develop a policy-relevant set of recommendations at local, state, and federal levels addressed to school personnel, families, community, business, and other stakeholder groups; and (3) to support the development of a network of stakeholders interested in this issue to support actions taken after the project ended. This report constitutes the project's culminating activity. Each section focuses on the role of key actors in solving the problem of Hispanic student dropout and also discusses the excuses commonly used to justify inaction and the ways that the project's findings contradict the myths on which the excuses are based. Each section ends with a list of recommendations for that actor. (Appendices contain an overview of the Hispanic Dropout Project's activities, a list of people who provided public testimony and otherwise participated in the Hispanic Dropout Project's site visits, a list of people and organizations who presented handouts to the project, contact information for sites visited by the project, and contact information for programs reviewed in the project's commissioned papers. Contains 140 references.) (EV)