Solving the High School Graduation Crisis: Identifying and Using School Feeder Patterns in Your Community

Posted by on September 09, 2013

UWW guide helps identify school feeder patterns

The path to dropping out starts early. So the earlier a struggling student is identified, ideally before they enter high school, the better the chances in shifting the odds for success in school, work and life. But that identification must be based on the right data. One effective starting point is identifying the middle and elementary schools that “feed” into the lowest-performing high schools.

United Way Worldwide has developed a guide to help identify school feeder patterns and help communities begin the critical discussion on using that data to boost graduation rates.

Solving the High School Graduation Crisis: Identifying and Using School Feeder Patterns in Your Community, can help parents and community members to understand the graduation crisis and effectively convey the rationale for identifying and using school feeder pattern data; understand a community’s education landscape; find out where to access key education national, state, and local information and data; know how graduation rates are calculated and determine a community’s graduation rates; identify feeder school patterns in a community; and use school feeder pattern data for greater impact in a community.

To download the guide, go here.

http://unway.3cdn.net/8ad86c683e72534fd1_3km6vzo9e.pdf