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Student Motivation & Dropout Prevention: The School Archive Project
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The School Archive Project - Students seeing their Story. Student Motivation and Dropout Prevention. Why Archive Projects Work. With a School Archive Project teachers may give students a new message as they leave for high school: See you in 10 years! That simple message is changing students vision of themselves and their future. It is reinforcing positive student/teacher relationships and establishing a meeting time in the future many are looking forward to. Self-images and plans for the future a...To pr...
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Most Important Dallas ISD Goal
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Why Archive Projects Work. The most important goal for Dallas ISD is to achieve a 50% graduation rate, then go well beyond that goal. Achieving this 50% goal will add 975 students to each Dallas ISD graduating class compared to the average graduation class size for the past 8 years, the classes of 2001-2008. The resulting enrollment increase will also eliminate the Dallas ISD budget problems. Faced the summer of 2008 due to the decreasing enrollment, a decrease caused mostly by our growing dropout rate.
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Dallas has the highest school dropout rate in the Nation.
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Why Archive Projects Work. Dallas has the highest dropout rate in the Nation. This April 2, 2008 Dallas Morning News article. Had a listing of US cities with the lowest graduation rate. In that list Dallas is listed as seventh from the bottom. If you eliminate all cities of less than a million population from that list, Dallas is at the bottom of the list. Dallas has the highest dropout rate in the nation for cities over a million in population! Report: Dallas ISD's dropout rate is 7th worst in nation.
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Dallas "Dropout Factories" & the Southside Dropout Myth
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Dallas Dropout Factories &. The Southside Dropout Myth, Part I and Part II. In 2007 the term Dropout Factory was given by John Hopkins University to every one of the 21 non-magnet high schools in Dallas ISD. These schools were included on. List of 1700 U S Dropout Factory high schools. The promotion rate data for each area of Dallas has changed dramatically since this average 2004-2006 tabulation! The following study was done in 2008 using 2004-2006 data. Designated as dropout factories. A dropout factor...
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Dallas Independent School District - Dropout Rate Indications
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Why Archive Projects Work. Dallas Independent School District. Dropout prevention progress - comparing 21 high schools in the three sections of Dallas. From the Class of 2000 to the Class of 2010 the percentage of 9th grade students who successfully make it to the 12th grade has gone up by over 12 percentage points for all of Dallas ISD! The numbers in the above chart comes from the Dallas ISD 14-year enrollment spreadsheet at http:/ www.studentmotivation.org/dallasISD.htm. For the last 11 years Dallas I...
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School Archive Letter Writing Process Survey 2007
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Why Archive Projects Work. School Archive Letter Writing Process. What is the effect? This survey of 15 questions was given to 8th grade students just before and just after they engaged in the writing process for a letter they knew would go into a vault for 10 years before they could read it again at their 10-year class reunion. (See. For details on the Middle School Archive Project.) The pre survey was given 8. I will continue my education after high school. Total # of responses:. 5- Definitely yes, true.
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Why do School Archive Projects work to motivate students?
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Why School Archive Projects Work. The most valuable possession any person has is their story, their history, the reasons they will be remembered. Thus mistakes are made. Dropouts happen in a world without goals, and too often isolated from the world outside their neighborhood. Students do not realize they are creating a history for themselves, and their future children, every day. They simply need to record it. They need to connect with a bigger picture of life. The Archive Project is not leading to new ...
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See You In 10 Years!
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See you in 10 years! Think back to when you were in middle school. With rare exception there was no expectation you would ever see your middle school teachers again unless you had the good fortune to be in a small community within which the teachers also lived. Middle school was something to get through and never look back. How would such a send off have changed your views of school? Now, imagine you are a child of poverty in the free school lunch program with parents who never finished high school. ...
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The Student Dropout Cure: Students Seeing Their Future
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School Archive Project Home. Students Seeing Their Own Future. Ldquo; Fourteen urban school districts have on-time graduation rates lower than 50%; they include Detroit, Baltimore, New York,. Milwaukee, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Denver and Houston.”. USATODAY.COM, 6-20-06, at http:/ www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-06-20-dropout-rates x.htm. The US. is suffering from a continuing school dropout crisis. Manner students will accept and believe. Statements by teachers are not. One way schoo...
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Dropout Statistics: Student enrollment by grade in Dallas ISD since 1996-1997
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DISD Stats by School. Why Archive Projects Work. Earching for an Accurate Student Dropout Estimate. The most solid foundation for an accurate dropout reporting system is a student enrollment by grade spreadsheet covering many years:. Student enrollment numbers by grade, and diplomas given annually, during 14 academic years in Dallas ISD: 1996-1997 to 2009-2010. Average change from previous grade since 1996-97. Percent of last yrs 9th grade in 10th. 9th to 12th grade Promotion Rate. A second updated sprea...
