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.