Sentences with phrase «help high school dropouts»

Alternative high schools — like Desert Rose High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, where I am principal — help high school dropouts avoid this storm.

The Mind Trust's $ 2 million investment will help launch new public charter schools in Indianapolis that will use technology to customize student instruction, help high school dropouts attain diplomas and incorporate academic rigor and social - services support to ensure low - income students excel.

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Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

In her sixth State of the State address, delivered on Jan. 29, Ms. Granholm called for as many as 100 new small high schools to help stem the dropout rate, starting as early as 2009.

Supporters think charter schools could have helped reduce the high school dropout rate, which hovers at 30 percent and at almost 50 percent among minority students.

The innovation charter schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent average dropout rate in our public high schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.

Ensuring accountability by guaranteeing that when students fall behind, states redirect resources into what works to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the very lowest performing schools, high schools with high dropout rates, and schools with achievement gaps.

But the lower levels of eighth - grade achievement serves as evidence of a point Dropout Nation has made over the past few years: That the generation of reforms that culminated with the passage of No Child aren't enough to help children master the knowledge they need — from algebra and statistics, to mastering the lessons from the Wealth of Nations and other great texts — for success in higher education and in life outside of school.

Come Back Kids, a charter school that helps dropouts in Riverside County, plays a similar transcript - repair and tracking - down role, often taking students from surrounding high schools and steering them to a cap and gown.

Sparks's piece for Education Week, published July 29, 2013, includes the national context that 28 states are now using early - warning data systems to help identify potential high - school dropouts, citing a -LSB-...]

While some believe that No Child Left Behind and high - stakes high school exit exams could exacerbate dropout rates, others say NCLB and the tests actually help put a spotlight on high schools by recording and reporting how students are performing.

«The hope is that those skills and positive attitude will carry into high school» and help lower the dropout rate, Junod explains.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

If we are to help students who have abandoned high school, we need to look beyond such labels as dropouts, nongraduates, or disengaged youth and learn individual stories.

We are also interested in policies that help struggling high school juniors and seniors «catch up» academically to avoid spending valuable time on remediation in college, and interventions, such as early warning systems and freshman on - track systems, that use data to reduce high school dropout rates.

Our dropout recovery academy focuses on helping students earn their high school diploma AND prepare for a successful career or to enter college.

Our role in Washington is to support reform by encouraging high standards, bold approaches to helping struggling schools, closing the achievement gap, strengthening the field of education, reducing the dropout rate and boosting college access.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

The Mind Trust's award also helped Christel House found its DORS program on its original campus, which prepares former high - school dropouts for college and career success.

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.

The goal of this center is to provide high quality evidence - based technical assistance to help states build and implement sustainable programs and best practices that will yield positive results in dropout prevention, reentry and school completion for students with disabilities.

If Sean Hannity was searching for the least qualified person to help him attack Earth Day and global warming concerns, he could not have done better than high - school dropout and Rush Limbaugh substitute Mark Steyn last night.