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The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) supports the national implementation of provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide successful school outcomes for students with disabilities. NDPC-SD supports states in assisting local education agencies to increase school completion rates and decrease dropout rates among students with disabilities.
New Items:
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New Document Available:
Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Strategies for Increasing Response Rates  (PDF)
The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) is pleased to announce the following OSEP approved document "Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Strategies for Increasing Response Rates" prepared in partnership with the National Post-School Outcomes Center (NPSO) at the University of Oregon. In this document, Drs. Sandra Covington Smith and Loujeania Williams Bost from NDPC-SD provides an overview of the IDEA requirements to collect post-school outcome data, challenges faced by states in collecting these data, and recommended strategies from survey literature and state and local practice to secure sufficient response rates, especially from youth who are drop out of school. Links to the document and other related documents about post-school outcomes are below.
Related documents:
Teleconference Notes
November 28, 2025
Topic: "Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Increasing Response Rates and Locating Hard-to-Find Youth" Presenter: Loujeania Williams Bost, Director, National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities.
- Recent Journal Publication:
Effective Instruction: An Inconspicuous Strategy for Dropout Prevention (PDF)
by Dr. Loujeania W. Bost and Dr. Paul Riccomini
Remedial and Special Education Journal, Volume 27, Number 5
(September/October 2006)
Although researchers have clearly connected dropping out of school
to prolonged low achievement, to date, effective teaching practices are
largely absent from the milieu of interventions and programs that are
employed by schools to address dropout prevention. As such, effective
instructional design and delivery as a focus for keeping students with
disabilities in school appears to be an inconspicuous strategy for dropout
prevention. We provide an overview of dropout prevention efforts by
researchers and federal, state, and local educators; a rationale for
connecting effective teaching principles to the challenge of graduating
students with disabilities; and a brief overview of 10 effective teaching
principles and how they relate to academic success that leads to school
completion. Practical strategies that teachers can use to make their
instruction more effective are also included.
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New Product from NDPC-SD:
Building Effective Dropout Preventions Programs
(PDF)
by Dr. Loujeania W. Bost
Since 2004, the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) has synthesized available research and practice in the area of dropout prevention for students with
disabilities. Our efforts have yielded insights into why youth with
disabilities drop out, the consequences faced by these youth, and effective
prevention strategies. In this article, we share with you some of the key
strategies and recommendations gleaned from research and practice. These
strategies and recommendations can be used by state or local administrators
as well as educators to guide the development of dropout prevention programs
for students with disabilities.
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New Media Files Available:
Audio recordings and transcripts are now available from the following
recent NDPC-SD-sponsored seminars:
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A Few Steps to Better Data
(PDF)
discusses strategies states can use to improve the quality of their
dropout-related data and get the greatest utility from those data. The content is designed for state
education agency personnel, including special education directors, data managers, and program developers.
This is the NDPC-SD's first offering in our State Performance Plan Toolkit Series. The SPP Toolkit Series
will contain this and other practical guides to assist state education agencies in their development and
implementation of improvement activities associated with school completion.
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NDPC-SD analyzed the information that states provided about their performance and activities
related to Indicators 1 and 2 (Graduation and Dropout, respectively) in the 2005 State Performance
Plans (SPPs). These reports may be viewed using the links below:
These reports may be viewed using the links below:
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New Document:
Key Points of
"Translating National Data into State and Local Practice,"
a Teleseminar presented by Dr. José Blackorby on February 6. A complete
transcript of the Teleseminar
is also available. Both documents are in Adobe PDF format.
If you have any questions about our work or how you can access information and resources from us, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]
QUICK LINKS:
George Washington University HEATH
Resource Center
Communities of Practice
IDEA Partnership Project
National Center on Secondary Education
and Transition (NCSET)
National Dissemination Center
for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
National Post-School Outcomes Center
National Secondary Transition Technical
Assistance Center (NSTTAC)
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Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
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The
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
is housed at the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
at Clemson University and is funded by the U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Cooperative
Agreement No. H326Q030002. The content therein does not necessarily
reflect the views or policies of the US Department of Education,
nor does mention of other organizations imply endorsement by
those organizations or the U.S. Government.
The
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs
(OSEP)
is committed to positive results for children with disabilities.
The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
is an IDEAs that Work project.
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