New report focuses on high school reform done right
EAST LANSING, Mich., (December 1, 2008)—The Multiple Pathways approach to high school reform is being advanced by states and supported by philanthropy groups around the country. The approach was developed as a way to prepare students for both college and careers while rejecting a tracking system that provides academic preparation for some students but only vocational preparation to others. A new report highlights the potential of this approach but warns that if poorly designed and implemented, past problems will not be addressed.
Released today by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, this legislation policy brief was co-authored by Dr. Marisa Saunders, a research associate at UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access, and Christopher Chrisman, an associate with the Denver office of the law firm Holland & Hart.
"Dropouts: One is Too Many" -
Final Report
Executive Summary
Get a guided tour of what was said at the 11 hearings and in online testimony, including references to specific ideas referenced in the 1,600 pages of hearing testimony (complete transcripts of which are below).
Jack Kresnak, president and CEO of Michigan's Children, a partner in the effort to solve the dropout crisis, took questions from a Lansing television station Monday.
News Release - Community action critical to dropout prevention
Video highlights
Hearing transcripts and audio
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- Grand Rapids - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Macomb County - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Detroit - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Lansing - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Flint - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Traverse City - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Ishpeming - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Wayne County - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Ferndale (student-only hearing) - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Saginaw - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Kalamazoo - transcript (.pdf) - audio (.mp3)
- Online testimony
About 80 people attended a Monday briefing co-sponsored by MEA to release the findings from a series of dropout hearings.
Michigan Dropout Prevention Leadership Summit
Materials distributed at the Michigan Dropout Prevention Leadership Summit on Oct. 20, 2008 in Lansing will be posted on the summit's Web site at www.midropoutsummit.org.