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October 2010
Another benefit to dropout recovery walks
Cleveland Rocks.
Cleveland, Texas, that is.
Cleveland School District staff and community members went door-to-door in search of dropouts on Sept. 11 to encourage those who had left school to re-enroll.
From high school dropout to teacher of the year
At one point, Joy Wagner was a high school dropout — living on food stamps and selling plasma just to make ends meet.
Now she’s Houston’s Teacher of the Year.
Wagner was the divorced mother of two children when she decided to go back to school.
An international epidemic
The United States is not alone in the battle against the dropout epidemic. Canada generally does better than its neighbor to the south when it comes to getting students to graduation day, but in many places, the dropout rate is unacceptably high.
Graduate Greenville: A Program for High School Success
Marquis was a dropout, homeless and drifting. But on the first Saturday after school started, one recent fall, he accepted the invitation of school personnel and community members to return to school and graduate.
If your goal is zero dropouts, zero tolerance is standing in the way
Educators and administrators who are serious about combating the dropout epidemic “should take a hard look at the policies and practices that push our school children out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems,” writes Linda Burt, executive director of the Wyoming ACLU in the Casper Tribune.
Mentors help inspire students to succeed in school
From the Winston-Salem Journal:
“A psychologist. A culinary entrepreneur. A day-care operator. For just a moment, three students who stood before a packed breakfast Thursday weren’t what they are today, but what they dream of becoming tomorrow.
The voice of “Dropout Nation”
When Guadalupe Sayers, a sophomore at South High School in Minneapolis, wanted to learn about why high school students dropout of school, she didn’t have to go far — all she had to do was ask her sister.
Not just an education issue
California's woeful dropout rate is emerging as a key issue in the race for the state superintendent's seat.
That makes sense, of course. Nearly 40 percent of Latino and African American students fail to finish high school in California each year. The state also loses about 20 percent of its white students and 10 percent of its Asian students before graduation.
Are dropouts getting dropped in the midst of a charter vs. district feud?
A dropout recovery charter high school in Florida will close at the end of the school year.
The decision by White Hat Management, the school's Ohio-based management company, to shut down the school comes after Polk County School District officials placed the alternative school on a one-year probationary contract earlier this year. The district had alleged that White Hat wasn't spending enough money in the classroom.
Can we socially promote AND hold students back at the same time?
A dropout prevention program at Louisiana's Thibodaux High will be expanded into other schools.