...Although most high school students graduate within the United States, some millions do not, resulting in a weaker job market and lower pay for these individuals and a dropout number that has fluctuated over the years. Data has shown most of these dropouts are Hispanic (United States Census Bureau) and the median pay of high school and college graduates is significantly more than that of high school dropouts (United States Census Bureau.) It is important steps are taken now to prevent high-school students from dropping out, such as using the solution-focused principles and techniques program because, while data has shown various ethnicities drop out of high school in all states, all of these individuals are limited in their career options. It...
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...because there is no longer an incentive to pursue this path. Grow Your Own, teacher’s aide tuition exemptions, and Access to Success funding programs all rely on federal and state funding. The Government substantially reduced or canceled the funding for these programs because of the cuts. This is thanks to Texas Gov. Rick Perry and state Republican leaders, who proposed a slash of $4.8 billion in state school aid over the course of two years. The educational cuts have already resulted in 100,000 school worker layoffs, reducing the quantity and quality of professionals available for the children’s education. Reducing funds in education also decreases the likelihood of students succeeding in college. Public college tuition has generally been driven up by rising spending on administrators, student support services, and the need to make up for reductions in government subsidies. The budget cuts have...
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...The Concern of College Dropout rates in The United States RES/351 October 31, 2013 Dr. Albert Smothers The Concern of College Dropout rates in The United States The United States is known for spending a great deal of funds on higher education. However in recent years statistics have revealed a high rate of college students fail to obtain their bachelor’s degrees. Currently 42% of college enrolled students fail to complete their education for bachelor’s degrees. Both educators and economists see this as an issue that can impact the country economically and the overall quality of life (Dunn, W. 2013). Purpose of the Research The purpose of our organizations study is to determine the correlation between a student’s level of preparation for higher education and the national dropout rate of colleges in the United States. Specifically, this study will focus on students that attended four year universities with intentions of obtaining their bachelor’s degree, however, they ended up leaving school without this degree. Many people pursue college degrees to obtain specific disciplines and higher education in order to become successful and contributing members of society. However, many of these students are exposed for the first time to environments or challenges that college may present with no preparation or ability to adapt and complete their degree programs. Dropping out of college could potentially impact ones future income earnings and quality of life (Dunn, W. 2013). The...
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...An increasing high school dropout rate is due to the fact that our education system is a grade-based system, that uses standardized tests to measure ones intelligence and achievements. Students who don’t measure up as well as others in terms of their grades, begin to quit at an earlier stage in education, with the belief they aren’t good enough to succeed in further education. With education inflation, the grade standards and pressure for students, are at a constant rise, which makes it more difficult for students to excel. For example, if a student was once a B grade student, they could easily be downgraded to a low C, because of the increasing competitive rivalry amongst students. As shown in Figure 3. There is a large percentage of students...
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...College Dropouts: Can CSM do more? Every year even a greater number of high school graduates decide to attend, four year and community, college as an extension of their parents’ “American Dream”. Yet consistently even a greater number of them become college dropouts after a short stay. Yvonne Raley states in “Why We Quit” that “Two-year public colleges have a worse record, graduating fewer than 30 percent of their students” (5). The question is: What is causing this and what may be the remedies.? College of San Mateo (CSM) has become an active participant in addressing lack of student study skills and student socio-economic background as the most important reasons for student dropout in community colleges. “Community Colleges have become dumping ground for all the educational problems in the rest of the system” Allen (14). The majority of students arrive at colleges unprepared for college work. Additionally, a great majority of us have been placed in remedial classes to which we neither relate, nor belong since a great majority us are not proficient in 8th-10th grades of either subjects. Most of the substandard students who have passed through the K-12 system lack the skills, or the focus, or the knowledge to deal with college. A vast majority of students in community colleges, some 70% of them, fail to graduate. At CSM Freshman retention rate, due to lack of basic study skills, is taken very seriously...
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...America is known for its ability to be innovative and for its educational value. Some may argue that America has lost its competitive edge when it comes to education and innovation. Some may say that the Chinese are now the leaders in innovation and education. The Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, collects test results from 65 countries for its rankings, which come out every three years. The latest results, from 2012, show that U.S. students ranked below average in math among the world's most-developed countries. They were close to average in science and reading (NPR, 2013). According to (Zakaria, 2011) in the 1970s, “California public schools were the envy of the world”. Currently, California public schools aren’t as great as they were in the 1970s. With the decline in the quality of teachers and curriculum California schools are suffering when it comes to national test scores and graduation rates. In addition, public schools across America suffer from low performing teachers and students. As stated by Zakaria, America has the shortest school days and school year in comparison to other countries. In other countries such as Finland and China longer school days and schools years have been proven to work in regards to the advancement of students. Also, with the requirement that all teachers have a master’s degree ensures that the students will have a high caliber teacher. Zakaria also stated that he believes that longer school days and a longer...
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...MANAGEMENT DILEMMA The challenge facing higher education institutions is level of technological entrepreneurship and innovation of first year students in the field of Technological programmes. This phenomenon has put pressure on management of higher education institutions to introduce entrepreneurial mindset and encourage innovation. The research in 2007 undertaken by Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) of University of Cape Town has shown that 23 percent of students choose qualifications mainly for the employment opportunities. PROBLEM STATEMENT The study seeks to investigate factors that influence technological entrepreneurship and technological innovation of first year students using Walter Sisulu University as a case study. Shein, Crous and Schepers (2010: 1) in their recent research paper found that not only in growing economies such as South Africa, but in other economies, entrepreneurship takes a proactive role in businesses and contributes to job creation. Students admitted to universities in various technological programmes have a mindset of looking for employment on completion of their qualification, rather than of opening their own small and medium enterprises (SME’s). The main purpose of entrepreneurship education program is to provide the students with necessary entrepreneurship and business knowledge, to allow easy transition into private sector and carry out their businesses successively, Patıra and Karahanb (2010: 27). Stats SA shows...
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...A Brief History of the San Francisco Unified School District and the Consent Decree) Reconstitution was introduced as part of educational reform in San Francisco through a process by which the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), the State Department of Education (CDE), and the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP settled the latter’s 1978 desegregation lawsuit. The 1983 settlement, known as the Consent Decree, was a SFUSD-driven document reluctantly accepted by the NAACP lawyers. The presiding judge, William Orrick, cautioned the NAACP lawyers to not go to trial since he did not see how they could win their case. They would not be able to prove that the SFUSD intentionally promoted or maintained segregated schools. As a result, the NAACP lawyers could demand only what the SFUSD and the CDE were willing to concede. The concessions were gained, however, by paying a heavy political price. By accepting a place at the negotiating table, the San Francisco NAACP acquiesced to the exclusion of teachers, Latinos, and Asian Americans from the table. The latter three groups all filed lawsuits during the life of the Consent Decree demanding that they, too, be parties to the desegregation settlement. Judge Orrick consistently denied their claims, explaining to them that the San Francisco NAACP was able effectively to represent Latino and Asian American interests and the district office would represent the interests of the teachers. This would prove illusory when lawyers...
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...Plan by the Arroyo administration. In the discussion, the author identified the four pillars of KBE which shall serve as the foundation for knowledge-driven development process. It was emphasized in the process that the key for relevant economic development for the country is when the people are able to acquire, create, disseminate and apply knowledge to uplift the status of their lives. It is seen as possible answer to the long-running problem of the country on poverty issues, necessary to enable Philippines to face new global challenges and trends specifically on economic development. In the presentation, the author also present the existing educational setup of the Philippines which gearing toward the attainment of the KBE. The Philippines created a trifocalized system of education system where the basic education, higher education and technical-vocational education are working together synchronously. Its objective is to develop educated and innovative workforce with relevant knowledge, skills and attitude which could be offered both in domestic and foreign job market. But this move and the present educational achievements (i.e. ladderization, student assistance program, ETEEAP) of the Philippine education system is not enough to cover the gaps and to fill up shortages among different statistical indicators. (i.e. high dropout rates, job mismatch) Challenges for Higher Education that is expected to hinder the implementation of educational reforms in the building of KBE...
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...of higher education get intellectual training, comprehension ability, and analytical skills that will enable them to build and develop characters that are important to be highly qualified in the job world. In contrast, students without tertiary education lack essential skills and capability to perform their job effectively. The solution for this problem lies in freeing college tuition fee and giving students equal opportunity to education. Moreover, though a large amount of students enroll in college, they are more likely to dropout without getting their degree. According to Erin Lamb, “Despite the growing need for increased education and advanced degrees to secure jobs, only 59 percent of students who begin college as freshman at a four-year college receive their diploma within six years. Students who come from low-income backgrounds are even less likely to graduate—if they even begin at all.” Erin Lamb is saying that several young students dropout of school because they can’t cover the cost of the rising college tuition. Therefore, Freeing tuition makes higher education more reachable to all students regardless of their social status. Education is the most important tool to reduce income inequality, so making higher education available to all students help to minimize the growing difference between college graduates and non- college graduates. College graduates have better opportunity to get better well paying job comparing to non- college graduates which is the main...
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...SOCIAL INNOVATION IN SPAIN Introduction Social innovation is defined as a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. The results of social innovation - new ideas that meet the unmet needs- are all around us. The results include hospices and kindergartens, fair trade and restorative justices, distance learning and congestion charging. Social innovation is different from innovation or creativity in general because it covers very wide boundaries of impact from gay partnership to new ways of using mobile phone texting and from new lifestyles to new products and services. Why Social Innovation? The financial and economic crisis makes creativity and innovation in general and social innovation in particular more important to foster sustainable growth, secure jobs and boost household health in micro level. The reason social innovation has moved center stage over the last decade is that existing structures and policies have found it impossible to crack some of the most pressing issues of our times – such as climate change, the worldwide epidemic of chronic disease, and widening inequality. History of Social Innovation The last two centuries have seen innumerable social innovations that have moved from margins to mainstream. These include the invention and spread of trade unions and cooperatives, which...
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...This particular case is an example of “war on waste” reform. War on Waste” reform is noted in Professor Paul Light’s book, “Tides of Reform”, as one of the four conflicting ideas that have driven governmental recognitions during the last six decades. The case begins with an identified concern arising in Denver Colorado school system. The issue reveled concerns, the urban public school systems, which were not meeting scholarly standards set by their educational board to improve graduation rates for the state. One particular school, Manuel High School, set in one of the poorest areas of the City, was deemed underutilized and a poorly instructed; thoughts arouse that it was wasteful or the school to remain open. Manuel High indicated unsatisfactory performance, high dropout rate and, was identified as a failing school. Information provided, stated that nine out of ten students failed their state written test; ninety-seven of a hundred failed their math test; and one in five freshmen were said to graduate from this school. Since Manuel High School was meeting unsatisfactory performance, thoughts of reform were expressed towards the school. The chief of staff, Michael Bennet, was hired by the governor of Denver to take charge of leading school reform. Bennet’s strategy was to close the underutilized institution and have its students select another school to attend. Bennet’s made plans to address a new focus for the school, which was, to start over and prepare their students for...
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...Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft and for years the world's wealthiest man, is a full-time philanthropist. In 2008, Mr. Gates walked away from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft and shifted his energies to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose goals are curing the world's fatal diseases and improving American education. Mr. Gates, a Harvard dropout, was an animating force behind the personal computer revolution, helping to build a huge global industry and engineer blockbuster products like Windows and Office, used every day in offices and homes around the world. When Mr. Gates spoke about his philanthropy to the Harvard graduating class of 2007, his speech echoed the language of Microsoft, focusing on finding the ''ideal technology'' with the right ''application'' to tackle problems like malaria. Yet experience has taught Mr. Gates and others that, compared with government budgets, even their vast fortunes are a drop in the bucket. When he began his philanthropic life more than a decade ago, Mr. Gates was driven by his conviction that providing incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs for the diseases of the poor world would be enough to avoid millions of deaths. He did not give much thought to the practicalities of getting health care systems in poor countries to deliver the drugs and educate the needy to use them. Likewise, he assumed that if his giving succeeded in developing a better sort of school for deprived urban areas in America, then that...
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...Foundation: “Competition spurs growth”- PM Modi, an apt concept which applies to our schools as well. An environment where individual schools compete for excellence will not only ensure catalyzed development but people-driven progress as well. When stakeholders drive change, it sustains. With adequate planning on objectives and aligning incentives with peoples’ needs, it can be done. Forward Path: The need of the hour is to identify key areas which are of utmost importance to improve the standards of rural schools in India and create a system where these schools compete with each other to achieve them. This will be accomplished through a four step process. Future Action: a) Priority areas will be identified from the current government agenda. They may include a maximum of 6 targets to ensure focus and effectiveness, such as (i) toilets for girls, (ii) enrolment rate for girls, (iii) dropout rate for girls, (iv) school attendance rate, (v) cleanliness and clean drinking water facility in schools, (vi) innovative methods applied to upgrade school infrastructure (like water harvesting, school beautification, etc.). b) Once the priorities are decided, primary (leadership role) and secondary (support role) stakeholders, who will drive fast track implementation, will be identified. The stakeholders will take initiative/ coordinate and follow up with existing responsibility owners to ensure fast implementation/ accomplishment of priority targets. One school will be represented...
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...Chicanos wanted a space in the ivory tower to have a better opportunity of achieving the “American Dream” than the previous generation which was perceived as dirty, poor, and uneducated. Chicano Studies is driven by of hope, faith, and hard work for a better understanding of history and demand for change. The term Chicano is now progressively changing as community members want to make the term more inclusive. The impetus began with el movimiento in the 1960-1970s demanding farm worker rights (1965), student rights (1968), and racial/historical recognition (1977). In El Plan de Santa Barbara, by the Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education, implies a Chicano is identified as a self-identifying term which is a generative root idea. The...
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