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More High School Graduates: How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out

A proven system to boost high school graduation rates

This guide helps school leaders and government policymakers boost high school graduation rates. Drawing from his knowledge as an education official and professor, author Ben Levin presents a system to turn around secondary schools that is adaptable for local-, district-, and state-level decision making. Components include:

  • Keeping track of all students’ progress and intervening early to prevent failure
  • Establishing curriculum and graduation requirements that support increased student success
  • Improving teaching and learning
  • Connecting with the community to engage families, local businesses, and other stakeholders in improving graduation rates
  • Implementing methods for planning, communicating, and winning support

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More High School Graduates: How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out

A proven system to boost high school graduation rates

This guide helps school leaders and government policymakers boost high school graduation rates. Drawing from his knowledge as an education official and professor, author Ben Levin presents a system to turn around secondary schools that is adaptable for local-, district-, and state-level decision making. Components include:

  • Keeping track of all students’ progress and intervening early to prevent failure
  • Establishing curriculum and graduation requirements that support increased student success
  • Improving teaching and learning
  • Connecting with the community to engage families, local businesses, and other stakeholders in improving graduation rates
  • Implementing methods for planning, communicating, and winning support

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More High School Graduates: How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out

More High School Graduates: How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out

by Benjamin Levin
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More High School Graduates: How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out

by Benjamin Levin

Overview

A proven system to boost high school graduation rates

This guide helps school leaders and government policymakers boost high school graduation rates. Drawing from his knowledge as an education official and professor, author Ben Levin presents a system to turn around secondary schools that is adaptable for local-, district-, and state-level decision making. Components include:

  • Keeping track of all students’ progress and intervening early to prevent failure
  • Establishing curriculum and graduation requirements that support increased student success
  • Improving teaching and learning
  • Connecting with the community to engage families, local businesses, and other stakeholders in improving graduation rates
  • Implementing methods for planning, communicating, and winning support

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412992244
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ben Levin is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His career is about half as an academic and half as a senior civil servant. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, Harvard University, and the University of Toronto, and also holds an honorary degree from the University of Ottawa. He has worked with private research organizations, school districts, provincial governments, and national and international agencies, as well as building an outstanding academic and research career. As a civil servant, he served as Deputy Minister (chief civil servant) for Education for the Province of Ontario from 2004 to 2007 and again in 2008-09. From 1999 through 2002, he was Deputy Minister of Education and of Advanced Education for the Province of Manitoba. As a scholar he has published seven books and more than 200 other articles on education in professional and academic publications. He gives talks and consults on education issues around the world. His current interests are in large-scale change, poverty and inequity, and finding better ways to connect research to policy and practice in education.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

About the Author xix

1 The Challenge 1

A Note on Dropouts 3

Scope 3

How High Can We Aim? 5

Not All Solutions Are Good Ones 10

Why Not Leave Schools Alone to Figure It Out? 11

Why School Is Not Like Work and Why Students Should Not Be Treated Like Workers 13

Can High Schools Be Transformed? 15

Why Students Don't Graduate 16

The Role of Pre-High School and Why Focus on High Schools 20

Why High Schools Are Hard to Change 21

Conclusion 26

2 The Framework 29

Know the Status and Progress of Every Student, Know the Reasons for Any Problems, and Intervene as Soon as There Are Signs of Difficulties 35

Provide a Program That Enables All Students to Achieve a Good Outcome 36

Improving Daily Teaching and Learning Is Essential to Achieving Better High School Outcomes; To Do This Requires a Thoughtful and Specific Strategy 37

Connect Schools Deeply to Their Local and Broader Community 39

Resourcing Improvement 39

Conclusion 40

3 Connecting With Every Student 43

Monitoring Student Progress 46

Assigning Responsibility for Following Students 48

Paying Attention to Specific Groups 52

Attendance, Discipline, and Suspensions 55

Student Voice 59

Conclusion 63

4 Curriculum and Graduation Requirements 65

The Challenge of Diverse Student Interests 67

The Role of the GED 71

Vocational Education 71

How Many Courses and How Much Variety? 75

Organizing Teaching 76

Assigning Staff 78

Helping to Reduce Failure Rates 79

Credit Rescue and Credit Recovery 79

Using Existing Program Models 80

Co-Curriculum 81

Alternative Programs and Schools 83

Program Needs of Specific Groups 84

Conclusion 86

5 Improving Teaching and Learning 89

Comprehensive Reform Models 93

Relevance 95

Hands-On Learning 96

Collective Work by Teachers 97

Knowledge and Teaching Practice 98

Learning Communities 98

Effective Student Assessment 101

Student Engagement in Teaching and Learning 104

The Role of Information Technology 106

Independent Learning 108

Conclusion 112

6 Connecting With Community 115

Working With Parents and Families 117

Challenges to Community Engagement 120

Working With Community Groups 122

Programming In and With Communities 123

Working With Postsecondary Institutions 125

Dual Credit and Early College Programs 126

Learning About Work as a School and Community Function 128

Conclusion 131

7 Implementation 133

Research, Data, and Evidence 134

Steps to Effective Implementation 137

Focus 137

APlan 139

Infrastructure and Resources 141

Structures, Systems, andProcesses 142

Dealing With Resistance 144

Indicators of Progress 145

Communicate Often and Openly 146

Distractions 148

Conclusion 151

8 Conclusion 153

Epilogue 159

References 161

Index 171

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