Graduation Coaches Pursue One Goal

Autor/in	Jacobson, Linda
Titel	Graduation Coaches Pursue One Goal
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2006) 12, S.28-30 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Graduation Rate; Dropouts; Prevention; Grade 9; High Schools; Educational Improvement; State Legislation; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Prävention; Vorbeugung; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; High school; Oberschule; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Landesrecht
Abstract	A new Georgia program aims to give every high school a full-time educator dedicated to dropout prevention. This program is part of Georgia's highly visible new attempt to increase the state's graduation rate. Rather than giving school counselors or administrators one more task, Gov. Sonny Perdue's goal for the program, which was approved by the legislature this year, is to provide every high school in the state with a full-time staff member who would better identify the population of students more likely to quit school and help devise alternative plans for helping them graduate. Other strategies to improve graduation rates include establishing 9th grade "academies," which are designed to partially shelter freshmen from the distractions of moving into high school and to provide them with extra support during that first year. Establishing this position is not the first action Georgia has taken to improve its high school completion rate. And it shows. In September, the governor's office announced that the rate has risen above 70 percent for the first time in state history, climbing from 63.3 percent in the 2003-04 school year to 70.8 percent in 2005-06. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10