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Every Child a Graduate. Presented by Susan Frost, Executive Director Scott Joftus, Policy Director. The Alliance for Excellent Education. Huge numbers of students are failing to graduate from high school on time. The problem is especially severe in some urban districts. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Every Child a Graduate
Presented by
Susan Frost, Executive Director
Scott Joftus, Policy Director
The Alliance for Excellent Education
Huge numbers of students are failing to graduate from high school on time. The problem is especially severe in some urban districts.
GRADUATION RATE BY DISTRICT AND RACE
DistrictGraduation
Rate
African-American
Graduation Rate
Latino Graduation
Rate
White Graduation
Rate
Ranking of District by
1993 Population
Boston 82% 85% 68% 87% 50
Cleveland City 28% 29% 26% 23% 38
Dade County (Miami) 57% 55% 55% 70% 4
Denver County 53% 55% 36% 79% 53
Houston 52% 55% 42% 84% 6
Indianapolis 39% 44% INS NA 85
Los Angeles Unified 56% 56% 48% 81% 2
New York City 55% 42% 45% 80% 1
INS=Insufficient student count for calculating graduation rate; NA=Data not available
Source: Jay Greene, High School Graduation Rates in the United States, November 2001
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Of those who fail to graduate with their peers, what is the ultimate result?
•Almost half neither complete high school nor receive a GED
•About a quarter ultimately graduate from high school
•About a quarter receive a GED
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• By 2002, 10 states were withholding diplomas based on exit exams
• By 2008, 24 states will do so
• High-stakes exams typically affect minority students disproportionately
If nothing changes, the drop out rate is likely to increase in coming years.
Source: State High School Exit Exams: A Baseline Report. Center on Education Policy, August 2002
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A bad education is a million-dollar mistake.
Annual Earnings 1999
Average Earnings for Men
Average Earnings for Women
High School Dropout $25,035 $17,015
High School Graduate $33,184 $23,061
Some College $39,221 $27,757
College Associate Degree $41,638 $30,919
College Graduate with BA $52,985 $37,993
Professional $100,000 $59,904
Source: Digest of Education Statistics, 2001, Table 382
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•Impersonal learning environments that fail to emphasize high standards
What are the causes of the failure?
•Low literacy levels among adolescents
•Under-prepared teachers for poor and minority students
•Inadequate planning and support for students
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•These students represent two-thirds of all drop outs.
Low literacy levels among adolescents
•26 percent of eighth graders and 23 percent of twelfth graders read below basic levels.
•Extrapolating, 6 million students in grades 6 through 12 are reading below basic levels.
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Poor quality of teachers for poor and minority students
Classes in High-Poverty and High-Minority Schools Are Much More Likely to Be Assigned to
Out-of-Field Teachers
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Source: Craig Jerald and Richard Ingersoll. All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching. The Education Trust, August 2002
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•40 percent of high school youth and nearly 50 percent of middle school youth report feeling disengaged from school
•Rates higher for adolescents attending urban schools
•Most of these students do not have a meaningful relationship with an adult and do not receive high-quality support services
Inadequate planning and support for students
Source: Peter Scales. Boxed in and Bored: How Middle Schools Continue to Fail Young Adolescents – and What Good Middle Schools Do Right, Search Institute, 1996
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Impersonal learning environments that fail to emphasize high standards
•Over the last 50 years, school enrollments have increased five-fold on average and even more in low-income neighborhoods.
•Approximately 70 percent of American high school students attend schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students, and nearly 50 percent of high school students attend schools in which the student population is over 1,500.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SLCP/overview.html
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In Texas, 53 high schools with large concentrations of poor students are among the highest achieving (top 25 percent) in the state.
Source: Alliance analysis of data from The Education Trust: Dispelling the Myth – Online. http://www.edtrust.org/main/main/DTM.asp#report
Of these 53 schools, 48 have fewer than 600
students.
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A Framework for an
Excellent Education for
All Middle and High
School Students
THE ALLIANCE CALLS FOR:
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Adolescent Literacy Initiative
Teacher and Principal Quality Initiative
College Preparation Initiative
Small Learning Communities Initiative
Framework for an Excellent Education
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ADOLESCENT LITERACY INITIATIVE
Every high-needs middle and high school will have a literacy specialist who trains teachers across every subject area to improve literacy skills of students. Teachers learn to identify reading problems and ensure that students receive extra help.
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TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL QUALITY
INITIATIVE
Provide incentives to educators to work in high-needs schools, mentoring for new teachers, and ongoing professional development for all teachers and principals.
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COLLEGE PREPARATION
INITIATIVE
Students must have a clear plan that assesses their needs and identifies coursework, additional learning opportunities, and necessary health and social services.
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SMALL LEARNING COMMUNITIES
INITIATIVE
Small schools personalize and contextualize students’ educational experience and facilitate the implementation of other effective strategies.
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•Add an additional $162 billion to federal, state, and local tax receipts
An investment in the Framework for an Excellent Education will pay for itself.
Reducing the numbers of adults in the lowest literacy levels by two-thirds would:
•Increase the U.S. gross domestic product by $463 billion
Source: Anthony Carnavale and Donna Desrochers. The Missing Middle: Aligning Education and the Knowledge Economy, Educational Testing Service, U.S. Department of Education, 2002
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The Framework for an Excellent Education seeks to harness Americans’ belief that every
student deserves access to a high-quality education and
should graduate from high school prepared for college and/or a
meaningful career.