Reaching Graduation with Credit Recovery

Autor/in	Dessoff, Alan
Titel	Reaching Graduation with Credit Recovery
Quelle	In: District Administration, 45 (2009) 9, S.43-44 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-5749
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Academic Failure; Dropouts; At Risk Students; Academic Support Services; School Districts; Government School Relationship; Politics of Education; Teacher Student Relationship; Electronic Learning; Credits; Attendance; School Holding Power; Graduation Rate; Repetition; Required Courses; Florida; Georgia; Michigan; Nebraska + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; School district; Schulbezirk; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Anwesenheit; Wiederholung; Pflichtkurs
Abstract	When students fail courses or drop out of school, it isn't good for them or their districts, which are under federal and state mandates to improve test scores and graduation rates. With those mandates and about 1.2 million students dropping out each year--or one every 26 seconds--there is more pressure today than ever to help students stay in school and graduate on time. Nationwide, nearly one-third of high school students fail to graduate with a diploma, with an average of 7,000 dropping out every day. The problem is even more severe among African-American and Hispanic students, with nearly 50 percent not completing high school on time. Overall, in the nation's 50 largest cities, only 53 percent of high school students graduate on time. This article discusses how districts, driven by government requirements to produce better results, are using credit recovery programs to help students in trouble get back on track and boost achievement levels for the students and districts alike. While some districts rely on traditional face-to-face interaction between teachers and students, many are adopting online solutions offered by commercial vendors, and others are implementing programs that blend face-to-face and online instruction. Some create their own programs from free online resources and their own curricula. In some states, education agencies and virtual schools provide complete programs. However districts do it, the objective is the same: to give students who have failed courses because of poor grades or absenteeism, or who have dropped out of school, a chance to recover the credits they have lost so that they can move on to the next grade and ultimately to graduation. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10