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Dropout Prevention:
Strategies for improving high school graduation rates
June 19, 2008
Legislative Building, Auditorium
16 West Jones Street, Raleigh
The 2008 Family Impact Seminar focused on strategies for decreasing the number of school dropouts across the state and increasing the graduation rate. The seminar was designed for legislators, legislative staff, agency officials, school board chairs and district superintendents.
> Agenda
> Briefing Report*
> Errata (June 24, 2008) for Page 16 of original Briefing Report
> Presenters and moderator: Biographical information
*For a hard copy of the briefing report, please contact Jenni Owen.
Presenters:
Irving Hamer, Jr., Ed.D., Executive Vice President for Client Services
and Strategic Development, The Millennium Group
> Recommended “school turnaround” materials
James Kemple, Ed.D., Director of K-12 Education Policy Area, MDRC
> PowerPoint presentation
Russell W. Rumberger, Ph.D., Professor of Education in the Gervitz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Director, University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute; and Director, California Dropout Research Project
> PowerPoint presentation
Moderator:
Jim Johnson, former Director of the N.C. General Assembly Fiscal Research
Division & Visiting Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Duke University
Funding for the 2008 NC Family Impact Seminar:
The 2008 North Carolina Family Impact Seminar is made possible, in part, by generous financial support from The Warner Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and The Prentice Foundation.
What are Family Impact Seminars?
Family Impact Seminars are a series of seminars, briefing reports and follow-up activities specifically for state policymakers and agency leaders. The seminars provide non-partisan, solution-based research on topics of immediate interest to state leaders.
The North Carolina Family Impact Seminar is part of the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars network.
Comments about North Carolina's
Family Impact Seminar:
"We as legislators need an opportunity to get together and 'think outside the box' in our search for real solutions to real problems. The Family Impact Seminars give us that needed opportunity and the environment to do just that."
~Rep. Jeff Barnhart, Cabarrus County
"Thank you for your Medicaid briefing report. I read through it in preparation for a meeting with a state legislator. It was easy to read and you did a great job localizing the data to North Carolina."
~Karen Bogenschneider,
Policy Institute for state Family Impact Seminars
"There is great potential for NC Family Impact Seminars to contribute to the work we and others are involved with to enhance education for state policymakers in a way that improves policymaking and its impact on NC citizens."
~Dean Mike Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government
Helpful Links:
North Carolina General Assembly
The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars - Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars
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