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?. WHY Early College. A National Perspective. ?. WHY DECA. A Local Perspective. Out of every 100 ninth graders. 68 will graduate from high school. 38 will enter college. 28 are enrolled in their sophomore year. Only 17 will graduate from college. Adapted from KnowledgeWorks.
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? WHY Early College. . . A National Perspective
? WHY DECA A Local Perspective
Only 17 will graduate from college Adapted from KnowledgeWorks
2002 Bachelors Degrees Earned 74.6% White 6.4% Hispanic 9% African-American
74% of the adultchildrenof high school dropouts are low income. 16% of the adult children of parents with some college are low income.
Being poor far outweighs race/ethnicity, family structure and other factors as causes of cognitive disadvantage. Mass. Insight Education & Research Institute
School poverty level more strongly related to achievement than individual family poverty • Less Engaged • Put force less effort • Have lower aspirations
High Poverty Schools…the perfect storm • Poverty undercuts children’s readiness to learn • The influence of the neighborhoods • The schools themselves are dysfunctional • Teacher inequality / teacher turnover
One in eight Ohio teachers in high-poverty elementary schools is not highly qualified, compared with one in fifty in low-minority schools.
Failing, high-poverty schools need much more than incremental change. They need fundamental rethinking on all the ways they serve their high-needs students. Mass. Insight Education & Research Institute
Whyhas so little fundamental change occurred in failing schools? • Lack of leverage • Lack of capacity • Lack of exemplars • Lack of public will
DECAblends • high school & college curriculum
Early College Movement • Over 200 schools • 24 states • Over 50,000 students
Start up grants received from high profile foundations • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Carnegie Corporation of New York • W.M. Kellogg • Ford Foundation
Focus on Where We Can Make a Difference DECA Phases of Development Transitions to Mobilize Resources Imagining Incubating Demonstrating Sustainability Credit todaytondevelopment coalition
The DECA REPORT CARD
DECA Students have earned over 3,500 College Credits
32 DECA students graduated in 2007 (first graduating class) All 32 enrolled in college
The 32 students received more than 2 Million Dollars in scholarships and grants.
75% of the students • are returning to the same college next year. 75% of the students returned for their second year
48 DECA students graduated Spring 2008 ALL 48 DECA Graduates were accepted by colleges
75% of the students • are returning to the same college next year. 93% of the students returned for their second year
DECA students have completed 1000+ Job Shadows 207 Internships All with local Dayton businesses
DECA students have volunteered 14,000+ Hours of Community Service to the Dayton Area
Named one of the 5 Most Innovative High Schools in the country - WestEd, 2004
? WHAT have we LEARNED
readiness to LEARN readiness to TEACH readiness to ACT
