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High School Drop Outs

High School Drop Outs. By: Pedro Gaytan. Public High School Graduation Rates in the United States. Nati on. Texas. High School Drop Rates. Class of 2008 (senior graduates/freshman enrollment). Who makes it through high school?. African American: Latino: White: Asian: Total:. 53% 59%

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High School Drop Outs

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  1. High School Drop Outs By: Pedro Gaytan

  2. Public High School Graduation Rates in the United States Nation Texas

  3. High School Drop Rates Class of 2008(senior graduates/freshman enrollment)

  4. Who makes it through high school? • African American: • Latino: • White: • Asian: • Total: 53% 59% 78% 84% 74% Graduation Rate:

  5. The Cost of a High School Dropout Over 25 to 30 years, a dropout student can cost a community as much as $500,000 in public assistance, health care, and incarceration costs. Estimates of the social benefits (social savings from reduced crime only) of a 1% increase in male U.S. high school graduation rates would amount to $1.4 billion. Completing high school raises average annual earnings by approximately $7,216. Additional annual Indiana income tax per graduate is $245 per year or approximately $9,800 over the working lifetime per graduate.

  6. Effects of dropping out of High School 1 Driver’s License/Work Permit Student lose privileges of driver’s license and work permit if they drop out before they are 18 years old without financial hardship and/or parent and principal approval. 2 Student Career Plan Requires yearly review of the student’s career plan and if a student is not progressing, counsel the student about credit recovery options and services available so that that a student may graduate on time.

  7. Cont.. 3 Chronic Absenteeism: chronic absenteeism (missing more than 10 unexcused days from school) in the definition of usual truant and loss of a work permit. 4 Report Card: Offers that on the yearly school report card, high schools must report numbers of: • total suspensions • students permitted to dropout by the school • work permits revoked • driver’s permits revoked • students in the School Flex program • freshman not earning enough credits to become sophomores

  8. GED vs. HS Diploma • GED officials say that one in seven HS graduates earn their diploma through GED programs. • 41% of them are 19 and under and 37% are between 20-29 yrs. of age • The military stopped equating the GED with a HS Diploma • GED students score lower on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test • They also drop out of the military at higher rates • Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman and Stephen Cameron found in their study that: • GED holders are “statistically indistinguishable” from high school dropouts.

  9. Solutions School Flex creates an alternate program for students in grades 11 and 12 that serves to engage students in relevant learning by allowing them to : • Enroll in either a college or technical career education program or; • Enroll in employment • Provided that the student: • Attends school for at least three hours per day • Pursues a timely graduation • Not be suspended or expelled • Pursues course and credit requirements for a general diploma • Maintains a 95% attendance rate • The school still counts the student as a full day student.

  10. Solutions cont… • Gates Foundation Study:Show that a high percentage of students who drop out of high school are under-challenged or bored. These students do not see how school is relevant to their future. • Double Up – • Creates a dual credit program that may be offered by a Community College and by other public colleges or universities so that high school students could earn an associate degree. • A high school must offer a minimum of two dual credit and two Advanced Placement courses so that a student may meet the requirements for Core 40 with Academic Honors diploma. • Free and reduced lunch students would receive a tuition waiver from the university.

  11. Citations • Gonzales, Raul . "High School Dropouts: A PowerPoint Presentation." High School Dropouts: A PowerPoint Presentation. N.p., 16 Mar. 2008. Web. 21 May 2014. <http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t6prod/yiadompp1_files/v3_document.html>. • Lynch, Ed.D.. "High School Dropouts: More than Loss of Money." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 3 Nov. 2013. Web. 21 May 2014. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-lynch-edd/high-school-dropouts-more_b_4208275.html>. • "." CNN. Cable News Network, 31 May 2008. Web. 21 May 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/05/dropout.rate.study/index.html?eref=ib_us>.

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