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The Classroom Go to category
5 rating Add chess to the curriculum
4.5 rating Promote arts and trades education
4.5 rating Spend money to lower student-teacher ratio
Teachers Go to category
4.5 rating Create a formal apprentice program for teachers
4 rating Successful people: become a mentor
4 rating Teachers must reclaim their intellectual authority
Parents Go to category
5 rating Get parents involved in the education of their children
4.5 rating Initiate parent education programs
4.5 rating Create an advertising campaign for high school completion
Students Go to category
4.5 rating Let's teach our gifted children!
4.5 rating Don't promote students who can't read near grade level
4.5 rating Teach students to tutor other students
Alternatives Go to category
4.5 rating Introduce and strengthen vocational tracks or apprentice programs
4.5 rating Step outside the box
4.5 rating Use academic credits for college tuition or cash upon graduation
Help pick the best ideas!
View the existing ideas, rate them, and add comments if you wish.

10 Most Recent Ideas
4.5 rating Increase the dropout age to 18 in all states
0 rating Interview drop outs about their choice
5 rating Add chess to the curriculum
0 rating Teach critical math skills
0 rating Have fun while studying
0 rating Shrink class periods, expand class content, grow thinkers
0 rating Make school districts smaller
4 rating Use technology to offer great teaching to all students
2 rating Explain the economics of life with an education
0 rating Facilitate access to community college courses
 What is this?
This is an online collaboration where you can suggest and discuss ideas for dealing with the low graduation rates at many southern California public high schools.

To take part, click on an idea to read it, or click on a category to read all of the ideas in that area. Then rate or comment on an idea, or even take the next step and propose an idea.

Background
A generation ago California prided itself on its world-class public school system. But today the system in many places is in crisis. One reflection of that: more and more students aren’t graduating from high school — nearly one out of three statewide, according to a Harvard study. In the L.A. Unified and San Bernardino City Unified school districts, barely half of high school students are graduating. Dropout rates for Latino and African-American students are even more grim, reaching upwards of 60 percent in some large districts. This hurts the dropouts, and it hurts society.
 
Dropouts significantly cut their earning potential over their lifetimes. They’re more likely to turn to crime. And fewer high school graduates mean fewer skilled professionals who can help southern California hold its own in the increasingly competitive global economy.

Propose a new idea
Are the ideas you see not quite hitting the mark? Do you have an idea about how to improve public high school graduation rates? Please share it!

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