Dropout Prevention Fieldbook—Best Practices from the Field

Schargel, a former teacher, counselor, and administrator who runs a training firm that presents education workshops, outlines field-tested and research-based techniques and exercises that apply the 15 strategies from Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem and Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention (co-authored by Schargel and the director of the National Dropout Center at Clemson U.). Those volumes explain what to do, while this volume shows how to predict and prevent student dropouts, for teachers, administrators, counselors, and special educators. Techniques have been drawn from schools, districts, programs, the US Department of Education, and state Departments of Education and list type of strategy, grade level, and specific users. Separate indexes by strategy and grade level, and those for administrators, counselors, and special educators, are provided. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)