dropout prevention

*http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/healthyfam/dropout_prevention.html, is a good article because it gives you information about things like the statistics of how many people dropout and how much money we lose because of it and how it affects our community. It also says, and I quote, 'For decades, educators have labored to help these kids but a community-wide problem needs a community-wide solution.'

*The article says, 'Moreover, schools want community help. A survey conducted by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change in 2003 found that 93 percent of literacy workers said they could use more volunteers to help people learn to read, 75 percent of public educators said they could use more volunteers to work in classrooms and 60 percent of teachers said they could use more people to assist with the collection of donated books and other school supplies.' what do community's have to do to get help?

*This is also a good website because the people who created it value the opinion of the students; the second section is all about what the dropouts say about dropping out. Educators interviewed some of the many dropouts and they said was;

*it would help if...
1) Everyone improved the teaching and curricula to enhance the connection between school and work.
2) People could improve access to support for struggling students.
3) Dropouts themselves said that “increasing supervision in school” and “more classroom discipline” was necessary to ensure success.
4)And if the adults got closer to the students, they might feel more obliged to tell them things that they need help with and they might tell them if they were depressed or thinking of dropping out.

*There are many ways to keep students from dropping out, but one of the most effective ways is to create a program that help students where they need help. In my school, we have something called 'The A+ Program', its where, if you have a good grade in high school, your high school will help pay for your college. A lot of students who are at risk of dropping out say that they don't how the things you learn in school connect to the jobs we get.

*I don't think this website is bias or slant because they don't add opinions of their own in the article, only the opinions of the dropouts they interviewed.

*I think that this is a good website to see what you can do to prevent dropouts. Also, this website has no emotion so you don't have to worry about things like bias.

High School Dropouts In America

*This article, http://www.all4ed.org/files/GraduationRates_FactSheet.pdf, is good for looking for answers about high school dropouts.

*In order, the sections are, the introduction, 'who is dropping out?', 'where are students dropping out?', 'why do students dropping out?', 'what are the costs of dropping out?', and the end notes.
The introduction is all about how the high schools and districts published misleading and inaccurate dropout statistics. Also, that independent research has made clear how shockingly low the graduation rates are.

*I think this website is a good source to rely on because for each section there is a question, like for the first section, after the introduction, it is, 'who is dropping out?’ this section is about, u guessed it, who the people are that are dropping out. This section describes how barely half of the African Americans and Hispanics earn a diploma.

*In the second section, 'where are students dropping out?’ about 12% of American high school produce nearly half of the nations dropouts. It says that 80% of the high schools that produce the most dropouts can be found in subset of about 15 states.

*I think you get the jest of it. This is a very good site to use if u are looking for the where, what, where, when, why, and how. This website has no bias or slant, but if you want to look for a website for the more resent answers I would try to compare this website to others to see if it’s reliable, because this website was updated last in 2009. If I ever need to find information for high school dropouts, then I would go here.

high school dropout fast facts

*This is the only article that I found that gave me statistics in, not only words, but in tables too, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16. The 'institute of education sciences' and the national center for education statistics are the people that created this blog. All the other articles I read, the people who made them, focused on one statistic, but with this article they focus on all sorts of statistics, like the percentage of dropouts for whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native.

*Not only did they put the statistics of one year, but from 1980-2009.

*I appreciate this website because they don't have opinions in it, it’s purely fact. This website tells people where to find related tables and graphs, and where to find other sources for high school dropouts. This website explained so much for me, and I think it will explain a lot for you.

*this article is a good source because it was published by the government so the information is probably relevant. This article also doesn't have bias or slant.
At the very beginning of the article it asks a question, What are the dropout rates of high school students?, and just doing that wanted me to know the answer and want to read it. I like this website, and I think you will too.