The National Guard has a program called Youth Challenge, which enrolls high school drop outs of both sexes into a residential, military-like, “bootcamp-lite” setting, where discipline, self-esteem, and physical fitness are emphasized. The aim is to prepare youth to take and pass the GED exam in a setting removed from the tumult of their home [...]
Posts Tagged ‘high school graduation’
Dropout and Give Me Twenty!
Posted in education, tagged high school graduation, military on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dept. of Easily Spotted Trends
Posted in education, tagged education, high school graduation, maps on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pretty stark, eh? Hat tip: Quck and the Ed.
Annals of Vertical Integration, Part 1 of a Very Long Series
Posted in Horizontal and Vertical Grids, tagged high school graduation, math, test scores, vertical grid on September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So our research team met this morning to discuss some data that Cindy, our program evaluator, has been analyzing. One critical question is “how do we measure our children’s likelihood of growing up to achieve economic self-sufficiency?” We know there are lots of imperfect predictors for graduating from high school (or dropping out) as well [...]
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