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November 2010
Partnership to keep at-risk students from falling further behind
New Mexico's Carlsbad Municipal School District is partnering with the United Way to help high-risk students stay in school — and graduate.
Should high schools and two-year colleges team up for mutual benefit?
"As local and state education officials move forward with plans to mitigate subpar high school graduation rates and ameliorate the viability of state two-year colleges, the two issues need to be considered as a single problem with a mutual solution," writes the Helena Independent-Record's editorial board.
Dropout recovery charter doesn't have space to meet demand
"Since he dropped out of high school at 17, Frederick Dixson has wanted to continue his education," writes Sarah Butrymowicz of The Hechinger Report.
"Intermittently homeless, unemployed and locked up, he's struggled in a variety of programs for dropouts. Now 22, Dixson thinks he's finally found a way to graduate. The only catch is that too many other dropouts are thinking the same thing."
Community forum helps illuminate the dropout epidemic — and identify solutions
Education leaders in Carlsbad, N.M., were proud when the America's Promise Alliance named their city one of the nation's “100 Best Communities for Young People.”
But they also knew — all too well — that they had a lot of work to do to make sure that was true for every child in their community.
Using Professional Learning Communities to fight the dropout crisis
Professional Learning Community experts D'Ette Cowan and Ann Neeley will discuss how to use PLCs as an infrastructure for dropout prevention and school improvement during the next National Dropout Prevention Center radio Webcast, on Nov. 9.
Common Goal: Grad coaches are a proven way to fight the dropout epidemic
A high school diploma today, although a substantial accomplishment, is not enough to prepare students for a productive life. Offering upper-level classes to the college-bound and allowing other students to drop out as a way of sorting students is no longer acceptable. The skills needed in technical fields and trades are not that different from skills required to succeed in college.
What magic? At Taft High School, people just "started caring."
Twenty-one percent.
That was the graduation rate at Cincinnati's Taft High School less than a decade ago.
Ninety-five percent.
That's the rate at which Taft students are leaving the school in a cap and gown today.
Stopping the Pipeline: Restorative Justice in Urban Schools
One month ago a coalition of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and lawyers convened in Washington, D.C., at a conference entitled, "Civil Rights in School Discipline: Addressing Disparities to Ensure Educational Opportunity," cosponsored by the Department of Justice and the Department of Education.
Professional learning communities: A model for dropout prevention?
Professional learning communities — working groups organized to attack problems and improve performance — are becoming a popular mechanism for school reform from the inside out.
From increasing reading and math scores, to finding ways to implement better art instruction, to improving student behavior, PLCs have shown great success in making schools better.
Provocative questions about credit recovery
"The traditional school is only good for about a third of the kids, the ones who want football, or choir or social activities — kids who have the school bug," says T. Jack Blackmon, who heads up the online-only credit-recovery program in the Dallas Independent School District.