California Dropout Research Project

from Librarians' Internet Index


"The purpose of this project is to synthesize existing research and undertake new research to inform policymakers and the larger public about the nature of -- and potential solutions to -- the [high school] dropout problem in California."


Features statistical briefs and research reports on topics such as which California school districts have the most dropouts, and alternative pathways to high school graduation. An affiliated project of the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute.


Please, please go and read this for yourself. Why the project? makes clear that California thinks it has "an educational crisis". The UK is obviously not the only place on earth that is suffering from the effects of young people leaving the compulsory education system without having been educated.