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At-Risk Student Model

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Across our great nation, public schools in all states grapple with a persistent and difficult challenge: addressing the needs of those students who are likely to drop out of high school before earning a diploma – the so-called At Risk Student. The research shows that nearly all of the at-risk programs achieve only modest success or fail outright for one reason or another. Then, a new type of at-risk program emerged: the software driven academic units. In term of actual success, defined here as earning a diploma, programs like CEC have been and continue to be the number one at-risk program model throughout the country. While the reasons for the success of the software-driven model may be debated, several advantages are clearly beneficial for the at-risk student: 1) The units are self-paced
2) Feedback for student work is immediate, no lag time …show more content…

For example: 22.5 credits are now required for an MUHS diploma to include the state mandate of four years of math and three years of science. Nevertheless, there are strict rules for entry into CEC. These rules help ensure that a student is properly challenged and does not try to “bail out” of a challenging course at the first sign of trouble. The Guidance Office has sole authority over entry into the CEC program. There are several rules, but the prevailing qualifier is that the student is “off the graduation track.” Normally this means two or more Fs actually on their transcript (currently failing a class is not a qualifier). Only juniors and seniors are allowed into the CEC program. For over ten years, the Computer Education Center has been assisting students who are off the graduation track. It is a great pleasure to work with these students, to see them achieve and gain confidence in

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