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August 2010
HELPING STUDENTS WITH ADHD CAN HELP ALLEVIATE THE DROP-OUT EPIDEMIC
Teens with the most common type of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are more than twice as likely to drop-out of school or delay graduation than their peers, a new study has found.
Since more than 2.4 million children between the ages of 12 and 17 have ADHD — and since more than 50 percent of students with ADHD go undiagnosed — finding ways to overcome the obstacles preventing their success in school could have a major impact on this nation's drop-out epidemic.
"TIME, ENERGY AND RESOURCES" MUST COME WITH CHANGE IN DROPOUT AGE LIMIT
School officials in Fargo, N.D., are planning to push the state Legislature to change a law that allows students to drop out of school when they turn 16.
“I’d rather have us and public education invest more of our time, energy and resources to turn that teen around at 16,” Fargo School Board President Jim Johnson told The Grand Forks Herald. “It’s really easy today to say ‘oh, this child isn’t going to cooperate’ and let them leave.”
DROPOUT PREVENTION APPROACHES ELICIT SOME SKEPTICISM IN MICHIGAN
The Lansing State Journal has cast a skeptical eye on a deal to bring a private educational service provider into one local school in an attempt to keep would-be dropouts enrolled and engaged.
CUTTING "EASY" CLASSES COULD LEAD TO MORE DROPOUTS
Want to keep kids in school? Don't eliminate opportunities for them to feel successful.
In tough economic times, cutting classes like home economics and industrial arts might appear to be an easy way to trim a school's budget.
But in a letter to The Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Maine, retired school administrator Ronald Moody argues that such cuts could hurt the chances of some students to graduate.
SUSPENDING SUSPENSIONS: "IF KIDS AREN'T AT SCHOOL, THEY'RE NOT LEARNING."
Two schools in Hudson, N.H. will stop sending students home from school for bad behavior under an in-school suspension program.
Better late than never?
TEACH FOR AMERICA OFFICIAL: WE NEED FAITH-BASED SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY
Should faith groups play a role in fighting the dropout epidemic?
Nicole Baker Fulgham believes so. In fact, she thinks its a moral imperative for those who believe God has called them to work on behalf of those in need.
CAN MINORITY TEACHERS HELP PREVENT MINORITY DROPOUTS?
Nearly two-thirds of Texas students are minorities.
And about two-thirds of their teachers are white.
Could that be one of the reasons for the Lone Star State's high dropout rate?
HOW DO YOU CONVINCE EDUCATED PEOPLE TO CARE ABOUT DROPOUTS?
How do you get the generally educated, plugged-in and civic-minded crowd that reads a daily newspaper to care about the plights of high school dropouts?
The Billings Gazette offers this take on the consequences of high dropout rates in the state of Montana:
A BILL WE'RE WATCHING
The California State Assembly’s Senate Appropriations Committee is considering a bill, today, that would change the way the state measures performance of schools that cater primarily to former dropouts.
The measure would allow certain schools to measure student performance based on an “individual pupil growth model” in lieu of other measures used to determine a school’s progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
"Dropouts are not born, they are created."
"Dropouts are not born, they are created."
Those words, from Michigan state superintendent Mike Flanagan, are more than a slogan — they are a battle cry.
And now it's up to the nearly 500 participants at the Michigan State Dropout Prevention Summit to settle on a plan of attack.
Among those who presented at the summit today: