Drop Out Risk Factors in High School Students
Drop out risk factors in high school students
Tyrone Galimore
Parent, Child, and School
Psychology 133A-AMEA
Professor Melissa Harwin
Tyrone Galimore
Parent, Child, and School
PSY 133A-MEA
Professor Melissa Harwin
Fall semester 2012
10/11/2011
Introduction The purpose of this Life Arts Project (L.A.P.)was to review the benefits of family involvement for children. For the purpose of this L.A.P. I am going to summarize some of the expectations that families and teachers have of each other, and what potential benefits of family involvement have on at risk high school dropout students. Some of the questions I am attempting to address are: why are African American and Latino students dropping out of high school at an astounding rate? Is there any difference when students get greater attention from advocate- counselors, and smaller class room sizes? And what are the expectations that families and teacher have on each other? In this Life arts project I focused on the impact of families and teachers involvement in high school drop outs.
Literature Review What initiatives are in place to prevent high school students from dropping out of school? Researcher has found that three out of ten Latino students dropout of high school, and one out of five African American students has also dropout out of high school. Understanding and addressing the issues surrounding students who drop out of high school is a continuous concern and pressing issues in school districts around the country. Over the past 20 years, the high school dropout rate has declined. (Center for Labor Market Studies, 2009 Cited in Featherston, B. Carl, 2010) Some of the research has been done through qualitative methods, while other research was conducted using questionnaires and more quantitative methods. High school drop out rate has decreased from 14.1 in 1980 to 8.0 in 2008 (US Department of Education, 2010) for example, this is the case for African American
Tyrone Galimore
Parent, Child, and School
Psychology 133A-AMEA
Professor Melissa Harwin
Tyrone Galimore
Parent, Child, and School
PSY 133A-MEA
Professor Melissa Harwin
Fall semester 2012
10/11/2011
Introduction The purpose of this Life Arts Project (L.A.P.)was to review the benefits of family involvement for children. For the purpose of this L.A.P. I am going to summarize some of the expectations that families and teachers have of each other, and what potential benefits of family involvement have on at risk high school dropout students. Some of the questions I am attempting to address are: why are African American and Latino students dropping out of high school at an astounding rate? Is there any difference when students get greater attention from advocate- counselors, and smaller class room sizes? And what are the expectations that families and teacher have on each other? In this Life arts project I focused on the impact of families and teachers involvement in high school drop outs.
Literature Review What initiatives are in place to prevent high school students from dropping out of school? Researcher has found that three out of ten Latino students dropout of high school, and one out of five African American students has also dropout out of high school. Understanding and addressing the issues surrounding students who drop out of high school is a continuous concern and pressing issues in school districts around the country. Over the past 20 years, the high school dropout rate has declined. (Center for Labor Market Studies, 2009 Cited in Featherston, B. Carl, 2010) Some of the research has been done through qualitative methods, while other research was conducted using questionnaires and more quantitative methods. High school drop out rate has decreased from 14.1 in 1980 to 8.0 in 2008 (US Department of Education, 2010) for example, this is the case for African American
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