School Counseling: Turning Potential Dropouts Toward a College Going ...

School Counseling: Turning Potential Dropouts Toward a College Going Culture

Jeff Cranmore McKinney High School

McKinney, Texas

As school dropout rates continue to increase, the economic, social and political impact ripples into all aspects of society- across the nation and across the world. Most states have enacted policies to combat the alarming rates at which students fail to complete high school.

Overview

The Legal Issues Dropout Numbers Prevention

Research Strategies

Supporting all Students Recommendations A Light at the End of the Tunnel/Sharing

Experiences/Final Thoughts Questions

Legal Issues

Dropout: A student, who attends Grade 7-12 in a public school in a particular school year, does not return the following fall, is not expelled, and does not: graduate, receive a GED, continue school outside the public school system, begin college, or die.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA, 2010)

No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

With the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act,, as amended, Title I, Part H Section 1802, The high school graduate initiate, also known as school dropout prevention programs, provides for school dropout prevention and reentry and to raise academic achievement levels by providing grants that --

Challenge all children to attain their highest academic potential; and

Ensure that all students have substantial and ongoing opportunities to attain their highest academic potential through school wide programs proven effective in school dropout prevention and reentry.

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