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The Challenge of On-Time Arrival: The Seven-Year Flight Paths of Baltimore’s Sixth Graders of 1999-2000 Martha Abele MacIver, Stephen B. Plank, Rachel R. Durham, Robert Balfanz, Johns Hopkins University, Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, University of Pennsylvania. Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) 2008.
An Early Warning System. Ruth Curran Neild, Robert Balfanz, and Liza Herzog. Educational Leadership, October 2007 | Volume 65 | Number 2 Early Intervention at Every Age Pages 28-33.
An Extreme Degree of Difficulty:
The Educational Demographics
of Urban Neighborhood High Schools Ruth Curran Neild, Robert Balfanz Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 11(2), 123–141 2006 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
First Grade and Forward: A Seven-Year Examination within the Baltimore City Public School System Stephen B. Plank, Rachel R. Durham, Johns Hopkins University, Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, University of Pennsylvania, Obed Norman, Morgan State University. Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) 2008.
Getting students to school: Using family and community involvement to reduce chronic absenteeism. Sheldon, S. B. & Epstein, J. L. (2004). The School Community Journal, 14, 39-56. Download the PDF here.
Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities
Tackle The Dropout Crisis
Robert Balfanz &
Joanna Hornig Fox Everyone Graduates Center John M. Bridgeland &
Mary McNaught Civic Enterprises America's Promise Alliance. November 2008.
Improving student attendance with a school-wide approach to school-family-community partnerships. Sheldon, S. B. (2007). Journal of Educational Research, 100, 267 - 275.
Locating the Dropout Crisis. Which High Schools Produce the Nation’s Dropouts? Where Are They Located? Who Attends Them? Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters. Johns Hopkins University 2004.
Present and accounted for: partnership effects on student attendance. Epstein, J. L. & Sheldon, S. B. (2002). The Journal of Educational Research, 95, 308 – 318
Preventing Student Disengagement and
Keeping Students on the Graduation Path in
Urban Middle-Grades Schools: Early
Identification and Effective Interventions
Robert Balfanz, Lisa Herzog, Douglas J. Mac Iver. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST, 42(4), 223–235
Copyright 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Supporting High School Teachers with Instructional Approaches for Adolescent Struggling Readers Marcia Davis and James McPartland
Teacher Turnover in Urban Middle Schools
Ruby, A. (2002). Internal teacher turnover in urban middle school reform. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 7(4): 379-406.
Three Steps to Building an Early Warning and Intervention System for Potential Dropouts. Robert Balfanz. January 2008
Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia's Dropout Crisis, 2000-2005. Ruth Curran Neild and Robert Balfanz. Philadelphia Youth
Transitions Collaborative and Project U-Turn. www.projectUturn.net
What Does it Cost to Operate a High School Organized into Small Learning Communities? When Are Additional Resources Needed? How Can Efficiencies Be Achieved? Robert Balfanz. Johns Hopkins University.
What Your Community Can Do Robert Balfanz May 9, 2007.
Within-school variation in teacher quality: The case of ninth grade. Neild, R.C., & Farley, E. (2008).The American Journal of Education, 114(3): 271-306.