How good a student are you ?

1. Howgood a student are you?

2. Whatmakes a goodstudent?

3. 1. Why do students typically drop out of school? 2. What is our school doing to keep students engaged in school? 3. Generally, what career options do high school dropouts have available to them?

4. Why do youthinkminorities are theonesthatdropout of schoolthemost? What can becausingthissituation?

5. Which of thefollowingcouldmakeyouthink of leavingschool? a. economy b. health c. personal matter d. living abroad e. lack of interest f. bullying g. joboportunity

6. a. economy b. health c. living abroad d. lack of interest e. bullying f. joboportunity Causes and Consequences

7. …an increasing number of researchers are saying that nearly 1 out of 3 public high school students won't graduate, not just in Shelbyville but around the nation… …for Latinos and African Americans, the rate approaches an alarming 50%. Virtually no community, small or large, rural or urban, has escaped the problem…

8. It's lunchtime at Shelbyville High School, 30 miles southeast of Indianapolis, Ind., and more than 100 teenagers are buzzing over trays in the cafeteria. Like high-schoolerseverywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own.

9. But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and Pythagoras. It's the promise of American public education: no matter who you are or where you come from, you will be tugged gently along the path of learning, toward graduation and an open but hopeful future.

10. Shelbyville, a town of almost 18,000 located in Indianapolis, seems an unlikely battleground in the war on dropouts... The capital is just a short drive away, but miles of rust-colored farmland, mainly cornfields waiting for seed, give the area a ruraltinge. Most people live in single-family houses with yards and fences. Not many of them are very well off, but there's little acute poverty, as a gaggle of automotive and other factories has given the town a steady supply of well-paying jobs. Violent crime is rare, and the town is pervaded by a conservative decency. People wave at one another from their cars on Budd Street. They chitchat in the aisles of Mickey's T-Mart grocery store…

11. Is there anything that can be done to prevent teenagers from dropping out school?

12. Almost 60% of black and Latino students at four-year colleges and universities fail to earn diplomas.  For black men, the figure is even worse–about 70% don’t graduate.  But if it doesn’t have to be this way and a number of universities are proving it. At the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a diverse institution with 16,000 undergraduates, 70% of black students and 65% of Latino students earn diplomas. Stony Brook uses a carefully thought out approach to help low-income, mostly minority students reach the finish line and it could be a model for the rest of the nation.

13. Findoutwhatis happening in our country. Statisticsaboutdropuotsand theactionstakenbythegovernmenttofightthiseducationalproblem. Then compare yourfindingswiththe cases of StonyBrook and Shelbyville