Increasing Numbers of Students Dropping Out of High School

According to the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), every twenty-six seconds, a student drops out of high school in the United States. That's around 6,500 kids lost every school day!

Reasons range from teen pregnancies to being bored with studies to the inability to pass the required state test in order to be eligible to receive a high school diploma.

In Florida alone, the dropout figure was an astonishing 424,000 young people in 2007 (Northeastern University, Boston, May 2009). I'm not about to break this figure down per county, because my point is not to do the typical bashing of local school districts. No, I happen to believe that our schools are made up of dedicated, hard-working educators. And I'm also not against the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test); it is a vital tool for determining what the learning needs of our students are.

Right now, however, there are teachers who are on pins and needles waiting the FCAT numbers are about to be released. And there are administrators who will not finalize the school's master schedules for the next , until they receive those test results.

Worse-there are students who are thinking of dropping out of school if they find out they had not passed this test.

When students drop out of high school, our country suffers. How? Through increased incarceration numbers, lower earning potential, worse mental and physical health, and higher death rates (ASCD). And who do you think ends up caring for the malfeasance? We all do.

We have a problem in education, and it's not going to be fixed by more testing or by boosting standards higher. Until we realize that our student population is diverse in language and learning abilities...until we keep them interested in real world subjects that go beyond academics...and until we provide these kids with great adult role models (teachers, mentors, coaches, etc.), we'll continue to see less smiling faces on stages during the next graduation ceremonies.

*Teri Pinney, author of "The Missing Heart: Chronicles of an Educator", [http://www.themissingheart.com]

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The Mythology of the Impoverished High School Dropout and Other Misconceptions

Introduction

The typical high dropout is not poor.

Review the statistical report of the performance of schools statewide and review the economic status of the students who dropout and you will find that the ratio of poverty to discontinuance from school is not as highly correlated as the ratio of race/ethnicity to dropout.

The typical dropout is not a minority.

Numerically, the typical high school dropout is a non minority who is not poor.

Minority governed schools do not assure that minority students will thrive there.

Some charters which are created expressly to show that minority governed schools will be more successful because of the race or ethnicity of the school leaders in relation to students have proven to be unsuccessful in student retention or academic achievement.

The truth is the unengaged student will disengage in a school environment that does not positively engage with the educational attainment of each and every student.

On the surface, minority students in predominantly white schools will attain greater levels of retention to graduation, as well, as proficient academic attainment. What would make this so? What is in the culture of some schools and districts that make the success quotient higher when the quotient is not being driven by wealth or affluence or race?

A truth

Effective Administrative and Classroom Leadership are Great Myth Busters

Clearly, there is superior educational leadership in the culture. There is a sound instructional staff. The administration and the classroom leaders facilitate the level of attainment represented in the positive statistical data. The data displaces mythology related to graduation rates, dropout rates and standardized tests performance.

Readers may want specifics to a greater extent. The reality is that success is homegrown. The best answers are found within the environment that seeks growth and improvement for its students. It is the school staff and community that govern the success of students. Parents are as a chorus to the sermon of the school culture. They can connect with the school leadership - administrative and classroom staff and students to create the mythology busting tapestry of effective schools.

Delia Armstrong Busby is an award winning educator and former school board member. Contact at rubusy1@comcast.net

Increasing High School Dropouts

The occurrence of school dropouts is rapidly increasing according to the government of United States. The US government is finding alternatives to stay away from these circumstances. They are taking preventive measures to stop this increasing rate. School dropouts are not a very good mark for their countries progress.

increase in the dropout would indicate an increase in rate of citizens who are not fit for the jobs. Wearing a graduation gowns for middle school graduation ceremony is a sign for the growth on the country. To stop this problem, the government is searching for the diverse factors that cause high school students dropouts. Here are several issues that influence middle school students to end up leaving their schools.

· Bad influence peers are one of the main reasons for the dropouts for the students. Students are being prejudiced by bad persons to do illegal act and to engage in drug addiction. A lot of teenagers nowadays are taking drugs without knowing the dreadful effect it can do to their health as well as life. It can seriously affect their health and can result in a emotional or even psychiatric difficulty.

· Teenagers, particularly girls are connected in premarital sex. They fail to finish their graduation because of premature pregnancy. Lack of supervision about sex causes to premature pregnancy and high school dropouts.

· Alcohol or alcoholism is an addiction that can cause to high school dropout. Teenagers who undergo from this type of addiction depart from their schools. Alcohol is the main problem of society these days even well-known celebrities are a victim of alcoholism.

· Financial problem can also cause the increase in middle school dropouts. Students with a financial problem depart from their elementary school with graduating by wearing graduation gowns. Students who did not finish their graduation are given lower salary in comparison to high school students who is graduated.

All of these issues are increasing in the school dropouts. The government is taking some measures to assist those school students to be able to finish their study. They are thinking about the long term solution to the problem. This solution can save their society from being filed with high school dropouts.