Case Study
How did one district raise its course pass rates by double digit margins for its most at-risk students?
How did one district raise its course pass rates by double digit margins for its most at-risk students?
By implementing a summer program developing the thoughtful skills students need to focus their independent learning. How did one district raise its course pass rates by double digit margins for its most at-risk students? q. a. In May 2001, the summer program for eighth and ninth graders in Liverpool, New York piloted a new approach to supporting student achievement. Five major changes transformed individual content courses to become a three-hour program of content, skills, and student reflection upon their personalized daily goals. The data showing the course pass rate from the 2001 student cohort was collected over the course of the following academic year. This data was then contrasted with the year-end data from 2000 for the summer cohort of students who had not participated in the p