Addressing Summer Melt
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Addressing Summer Melt
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Author : Jennifer Pettersson Cobb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Addressing Summer Melt written by Jennifer Pettersson Cobb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
In July 2013, National Public Radio (NPR) showcased a research study on why economically disadvantaged students "melted" during the summer between their high school graduation and fall enrollment in an institute of higher education (IHE). Summer melt has been defined as graduated high school students who intend and apply to go to college in the fall after graduation but end up not enrolling. The study found that up to 40% of economically disadvantaged students who planned to attend a community college never enrolled. The phenomenon of summer melt is not a new one, but with more economically disadvantaged students enrolling in higher education, it has become more apparent. The concern of summer melt is multifaceted. High schools are now holding themselves more responsible for how successfully they launch their graduates. IHEs are concerned that students who commit to their institutions become no-shows, which creates a ripple effect that on waiting lists and financial aid. Summer melt appears to be a relatively new area of study in educational research. The attempts to address the phenomenon come from K–12 school districts, IHEs, college-access organizations and other nonprofit organizations. One method of addressing summer melt is summer bridge programs. Summer bridge programs are created to help improve college readiness and ease the transition into college. In the past, they were mainly created by IHEs with the intention of assisting students who had probationary acceptance. With attention appearing to shift now to college completion, the connection of summer melt to summer bridge programs as a possible intervention is timely and useful, especially for economically disadvantaged students. This research study examined the impact of a summer bridge program in reducing the summer melt rate for two Title I high schools in Houston, Texas. The definition of summer melt for the purpose of this study has been broadened to include students who intend, at the time of high school graduation, to enroll in an IHE in the fall. The reason for the expansion of this definition is that most students this intervention addresses historically do not enroll in the local community college until the summer after graduation. Based on previous research conducted in this specific district, approximately 50% of students from these two high schools who intend to enroll in the local community college do not attend in the fall. The majority of students attending these high schools are economically disadvantaged, Hispanic, and first-generation college students. These variables will be discussed as possible factors influencing the high summer melt rates. A summer bridge program was created by the independent school district in partnership with the local community college in order to address summer melt. The impact of this program in addressing summer melt was assessed by the fall enrollment rate of students in the local community college. Summer bridge students were compared to students from the same high schools who did not attend the summer bridge program. All students included in the analysis had stated in a senior graduation survey that they planned to attend the local community college. Results indicated that the summer bridge program positively impacted students who are Hispanic and economically disadvantaged and this impact is statistically significant. The intentionality of services and planning required for a bridge program to be successful was apparent throughout the planning and execution of the program. The detailed description of the program as it relates to these components and set up of the program provides a valuable framework for other institutions to establish a similar bridge program.
Summer Melt
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Author : Benjamin L. Castleman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2020-01-15
Summer Melt written by Benjamin L. Castleman and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with Education categories.
Under increasing pressure to raise graduation rates and ensure that students leave high school college- and career-ready, many school and district leaders may believe that, when students graduate with college acceptances in hand, their work is done. But as Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay C. Page show, summer can be a time of significant attrition among college-intending seniors—especially those from low-income families. Anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of students presumed to be headed to college fail to matriculate at any postsecondary institution in the fall following high school. Summer Melt explores the complex factors that contribute to this trend—the absence of school support, confusion over paperwork, lack of parental guidance, and the teenage tendency to procrastinate. The authors draw on findings from fields such as neuroscience, behavioral economics, and social psychology to contextualize these factors. Drawing on a series of research studies, they show how schools and districts can develop effective, low-cost, scalable responses—including counselor outreach, peer mentoring, and using text messages and social media—to help students stay on track over the summer. Summer Melt offers very practical guidance for schools and districts committed to helping their students make the transition to college.
Post Secondary Planning For All
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Author : Sejal Parikh Foxx
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Post Secondary Planning For All written by Sejal Parikh Foxx and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Education categories.
It is not surprising that in order to meet the job demands of the future, we need to ensure that students have the knowledge and opportunity to choose from an array of postsecondary options before graduating from high school. Particularly as our society continues to increase in diversity, providing access to college and career choices for all students is imperative. However, there are many barriers that keep students from reaching their potential and envisioning a future that is personally and professionally rewarding. Many of these barriers are systemic in nature and others are related to individual circumstances. Regardless from where the barriers stem, school counselors and others who provide postsecondary readiness services to students must advocate, work to create equitable access, and assist with navigating through complex systems. This book compiles information and strategies from experts in the field. Each chapter in this book offers definitions of specific populations, evidence-based culturally responsive counseling strategies including those related to collaboration, case studies and interventions, and opportunities for readers to reflect on their understanding of that population to inspire professional growth. Groups included in this book include students who are experiencing homelessness, students in English Language Learner programs, families experiencing poverty, students with special needs, and many others that school counselors and college advisors will encounter in their career.
The College Dropout Scandal
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Author : David Kirp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-01
The College Dropout Scandal written by David Kirp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Education categories.
Higher education today faces a host of challenges, from quality to cost. But too little attention gets paid to a startling fact: four out of ten students -- that's more than ten percent of the entire population - -who start college drop out. The situation is particularly dire for black and Latino students, those from poor families, and those who are first in their families to attend college. In The College Dropout Scandal, David Kirp outlines the scale of the problem and shows that it's fixable - -we already have the tools to boost graduation rates and shrink the achievement gap. Many college administrators know what has to be done, but many of them are not doing the job - -the dropout rate hasn't decreased for decades. It's not elite schools like Harvard or Williams who are setting the example, but places like City University of New York and Long Beach State, which are doing the hard work to assure that more students have a better education and a diploma. As in his New York Times columns, Kirp relies on vivid, on-the-ground reporting, conversations with campus leaders, faculty and students, as well as cogent overviews of cutting-edge research to identify the institutional reforms--like using big data to quickly identify at-risk students and get them the support they need -- and the behavioral strategies -- from nudges to mindset changes - -that have been proven to work. Through engaging stories that shine a light on an underappreciated problem in colleges today, David Kirp's hopeful book will prompt colleges to make student success a top priority and push more students across the finish line, keeping their hopes of achieving the American Dream alive.
Improvement In Action
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Author : Anthony S. Bryk
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
Improvement In Action written by Anthony S. Bryk and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Education categories.
Improvement in Action, Anthony S. Bryk’s sequel to Learning to Improve, illustrates how educators have effectively applied the six core principles of continuous improvement in practice. The book highlights relevant examples of rigorous, high-quality improvement work in districts, schools, and professional development networks across the country. The organizations featured in the book have addressed, with remarkable results, long-standing inequitable educational outcomes in high school graduation rates, college readiness, and absenteeism. The cases emphasize the measures the educators took and the thinking that motivated their actions. Bryk describes how improvers, working in different contexts and confronting different problems, used select principles, tools, and methods to make improvement come to life. Brief analytic reflections are embedded throughout the narratives, and each chapter concludes with an analysis of a set of larger lessons illuminated by the organization’s story. Taken as a set, these examples offer readers valuable insights about the actual dynamics of doing improvement work. Improvement in Action, paired with Learning to Improve, provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the practice, method, and theory of large-scale continuous improvement in education.
The Warming Papers
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Author : David Archer
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-04-29
The Warming Papers written by David Archer and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-29 with Science categories.
Chosen for the 2011 ASLI Choice - Honorable Mention (History Category) for a compendium of the key scientific papers that undergird the global warming forecast. Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the foundations of our understanding were laid almost two centuries ago with the postulation of a greenhouse effect by Fourier in 1827. The sensitivity of climate to changes in atmospheric CO2 was first estimated about one century ago, and the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration was discovered half a century ago. The fundamentals of the science underlying the forecast for human-induced climate change were being published and debated long before the issue rose to public prominence in the last few decades. The Warming Papers is a compendium of the classic scientific papers that constitute the foundation of the global warming forecast. The paper trail ranges from Fourier and Arrhenius in the 19th Century to Manabe and Hansen in modern times. Archer and Pierrehumbert provide introductions and commentary which places the papers in their context and provide students with tools to develop and extend their understanding of the subject. The book captures the excitement and the uncertainty that always exist at the cutting edge of research, and is invaluable reading for students of climate science, scientists, historians of science, and others interested in climate change.
From High School To The Future
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Author : Melissa R. Roderick
language : en
Publisher: Consortium on Chicago School Research
Release Date : 2008
From High School To The Future written by Melissa R. Roderick and has been published by Consortium on Chicago School Research this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Education, Higher categories.
The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (UChicago CCSR) builds the capacity for school reform by conducting research that identifies what matters for student success and school improvement. Since 2004, CCSR has tracked the postsecondary experiences of successive cohorts of Chicago Public Schools graduates and examined the relationship among high school preparation, support, college choice, and postsecondary outcomes. The goal of this research is to help policymakers and practitioners understand what it takes to improve the college outcomes for urban and other at-risk students who now overwhelmingly aspire to college. This second report in the "From High School to the Future" series looks beyond qualifications to examine where students encounter potholes on the road to college. The findings reveal that Chicago students at all levels of qualifications do not successfully navigate the daunting process of enrolling in four-year colleges and too often default to colleges for which they are overqualified. The study relies on qualitative and quantitative data for CPS seniors in 2005: student and teacher surveys, transcripts, college enrollment data reported by the National Student Clearinghouse, and student interviews. Consortium researchers spent nearly two years interviewing and tracking the academic progress of 105 students in three Chicago high schools. The ten case studies included in the "Potholes" study each highlight a student who struggled at a different point in the postsecondary planning process.
Searise
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Author : Robert A. Bindschadler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Searise written by Robert A. Bindschadler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Climatic changes categories.
Proceedings of a workshop on the possibility of a rapid rise in sea level following the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet to global warming, and outline of a project to study the phenomenon, called SEARISE : Sea Level Response to Ice Sheet Evolution.
A Farewell To Ice
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Author : P. Wadhams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
A Farewell To Ice written by P. Wadhams and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Nature categories.
Ice, the magic crystal -- A brief history of ice on planet Earth -- The modern cycle of ice ages -- The greenhouse effect -- Sea ice meltback begins -- The future of Arctic sea ice the death spiral -- The accelerating effects of Arctic feedbacks -- Arctic methane, a catastrophe in the making -- Strange weather -- The secret life of chimneys -- What's happening to the Antarctic? -- The state of the planet -- A call to arms
After Cooling
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Author : Eric Dean Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-07-19
After Cooling written by Eric Dean Wilson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with Nature categories.
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant’s life span from its invention in the 1920s—when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress—to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture—in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values—combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. “Meticulously researched and engagingly written” (Amitav Ghosh), this “knockout debut” (New York Journal of Books) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.
