GOAL Academy: Giving Dropouts a Second Chance

Autor/in	Dicksteen, Lisa Napell
Titel	GOAL Academy: Giving Dropouts a Second Chance
Quelle	In: Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 87 (2012) 4, S.32-35 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-1803
Schlagwörter	Dropouts; Dropout Rate; Hispanic American Students; Dropout Programs; Daily Living Skills; Teacher Student Relationship; Improvement Programs; Student Improvement; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Dropout Characteristics; Student Centered Curriculum; Culturally Relevant Education; Effective Schools Research; Colorado + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Alltagsfertigkeit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Effizienzsteigerung; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Schulforschung
Abstract	The U.S. Department of Education's (ED) National Center for Education Statistics defines dropouts as "16- through 21-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential (either a diploma or an equivalency credential such as a General Education Development (GED) certificate)." According to the feds, the U.S. dropout rate for 2008 (the last year for which statistics are currently available) was 8 percent, with the number of African American and Hispanic dropouts far outpacing their white classmates. All across Colorado, the Guided Online Academic Learning (GOAL) Academy is helping at-risk Latino students re-engage in their learning by fostering personal relationships between students and teachers, and providing a rigorous curriculum that includes life skills. GOAL teachers don't see their students as having failed, they see the traditional brick-and-mortar education system and their students' family and social circumstances as having failed. Their students are not failures: they are successes that simply have not happened yet. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). 1410 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Tel: 800-826-9972; Tel: 703-683-3111; Fax: 703-683-7424; Web site: http://www.acteonline.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10