Compelling Case Slides

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Compelling Case Slides

• Created by Mike Mattos
• Please use for only personal use--do not post on
  web.

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Our Mission

• To assure high levels of learning for all
  students!

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Never in our nations history have the demands on
our educational system been greater or the
consequences of failure as severe. Beyond the
high-stakes school accountability requirements
mandated by state and federal laws, the
difference between success and failure in school
is, quite literally, life and death for our
students.
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Today, a child who graduates from school with a
mastery of essential skills and knowledge is
prepared to compete in the global marketplace,
with numerous paths of opportunity available to
lead a successful life. Yet, for students who
fail in our educational system, the reality is
that there are virtually no paths of opportunity.
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The likely pathway for student who struggle in
school is an adult life of poverty,
incarceration, and/or dependence on societys
welfare systems.
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-- Dropouts on average earn about 12,000 per
year, nearly 50 percent less than those who have
a high school diploma-- 50 percent less likely
to have a job that offers a pension plan or
health insurance -- They are more likely to
experience health problems --Rouse/Muenning,
2005 www.centerforpubliceducation.org
Poverty
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According to a US government report, The State
of Literacy in America, over 90 million US
adults, nearly one out of two, are functionally
illiterate or near illiterate, without the
minimum skills requiredin a modern society.
Poverty
Larry Roberts, Illiteracy on the Rise in America
http//www.wsws.org
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44 million cannot read a newspaperor fill out
a job application. Another 50 million more
cannot read or comprehend above the eighth grade
level.
Poverty
Larry Roberts, Illiteracy on the Rise in America
http//www.wsws.org
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Poverty 43 percent of people with the lowest
literacy skills live below the government's
official poverty line
Larry Roberts, Illiteracy on the Rise in America
http//www.wsws.org
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Incarceration Russia and the U.S. are now the
world leaders in incarceration, with
imprisonment rates 6 to10 times that of most
industrialized nations.
http//www.proliteracy.org/downloads/ProLiteracySt
ateOfLiteracy2010-25-04.pdf
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Incarceration Across the United States, 82
of prison inmates are dropouts Ysseldyke,
Algozzine, Thurlow 1992
http//findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2248/is_n12
6_v32/ai_19619426/pg_4
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Incarceration According to the report,
Literacy Behind Prison Walls, 70 percent of all
prison inmates are functionally illiterate or
read below a fourth-grade level.
http//www.proliteracy.org/downloads/ProLiteracySt
ateOfLiteracy2010-25-04.pdf
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Incarceration 85 of juvenile offenders have
reading problems.http//www.literacybuffalo
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Incarceration Youth in Correctional
FacilitiesAverage age 15Average Reading
Level 4th Grade (30 below this
level)www.edjj.org
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Incarceration and Special Education The
incidence of learning disabilities among the
general population based on U.S. Dept. of
Education and local service providers is around
5. This is in sharp contrast with the number of
LD students in the criminal justice system,
estimated to be as high as 50.
Bell, 1990 http//findarticles.com/p/articles/mi
_m2248/is_n126_v32/ai_19619426/pg_4
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Incarceration and Special Education Only 57 of
youth with disabilities graduated from high
school in the 2001-02 school year, according to
the U.S. Department of Education
(2002)http//www.ncset.org/publications/viewdes
c.asp?id3135
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Social Costs75 of those claiming welfare are
functionally illiterate. http//www.covinaliter
acy.org/facts.htm
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Social CostsOne study conducted by a
University of California, Berkeley economist
found that a 10 percent increase in the
graduation rate would likely reduce the murder
and assault arrest rates by about 20 percent
Moretti, 2005 www.centerforpubliceducation.o
rg
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Social CostsThe same study found that
increasing the high school completion rate by
just one percent for men ages 20-60 would save
the United States up to 1.4 billion per year in
reduced costs from crime. Moretti, 2005
www.centerforpubliceducation.org
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With such high stakes, educators today are like
tightrope walkers without a safety net,
responsible for meeting the needs of every child
with little room for error.
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Our Mission

• To assure high levels of learning for all
  students!

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• What do we mean
• by high levels
• of learning?

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• Is a high school diploma enough for our current
  students to be competitive in the global
  marketplace?

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The high school diploma has become the ticket
to nowhere.James Waller, Face to Face The
Changing State of Racism Across America
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Education and Lifelong EarningHigh School
Drop Out 608,000High School Graduate
802,000Some College
922,890Associate Degree
1,062,130Bachelors Degree
1,420,850Masters Degree
2,142,440Doctorate
3,012,300 James Waller, Face to Face The
Changing State of Racism Across America
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2006 College GraduatesUS 1.3 MillionIndia
3.1 MillionChina 3.3 Million
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• What do we mean
• by high levels
• of learning?
• High School Plus

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• If our mission is high levels of learning for all
  students,
• the question is
• Is it possible?

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There are simple, proven, affordable structures
that exist right now and could have a dramatic,
widespread impact on schools and achievementin
virtually any school. An astonishing level of
agreement has emerged on this point --Mike
Schmoker, 2004
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Schools Do Make a Difference

• Effective Schools Research of Ron Edmonds, Larry
  Lezotte, Wilbur Brookover, Michael Rutter, and
  others concluded that
• All Children Can Learn
• Schools control the factors to assure that
  students master the core of the curriculum

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Schools Do Make a Difference

• An analysis of research conducted over a
  thirty-five year period demonstrates that schools
  that are highly effective produce results that
  almost entirely overcome the effects of student
  backgrounds
• Robert Marzano, What Works in Schools, 2003

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Schools Do Make a Difference

• 90/90/90 Schools
• --Doug Reeves

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• Then why arent most schools getting these
  results?
• We must stop doing what we have done for
• 100 years

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• Our Dilemma
• Our traditional US school system was not designed
  to ensure that all students learn
• at high levels

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• Traditional US school system
• -- Professional isolation (1 room schoolhouse)
• -- Failure is OK
• -- Few students went to college (10-15)
• -- Our job was to sort students (bell curve)

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Agricultural Jobs in AmericaIn 1870, half of
the US population was employed in agriculture.
As of 2006, less than 1 of the population is
directly employed in agriculture.
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Agricultural Jobs in AmericaAs of 2004, the
median hourly income was 7.70 for farmworkers
planting, growing and harvesting crops.
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US Manufacturing Jobs Fifty years ago, a third
of U.S. employees worked in factories. Today, a
little more than one-tenth of the nation's 131
million workers are employed by manufacturing
firms.
--USA Todayhttp//www.usatoday.com/money/economy/
2002-12-12-manufacture_x.htm
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US Manufacturing Jobs 1950 342002
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--USA Todayhttp//www.usatoday.com/money/economy/
2002-12-12-manufacture_x.htm
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Pension Benefits Pensions are becoming a
thing of the past Rene Syler Pension
Promises The Death of the American Dream?
http//www.businessandmedia.org/news/2006/news2006
0118.asp
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Health Benefits --Nearly 47 million
Americans, or 16 percent of the population, were
without health insurance in 2005. The number of
uninsured rose 2.2 million between 2005 and
2006. --Over 8 in 10 uninsured people come from
working families - almost 70 percent from
families with one or more full-time workers
http//www.nchc.org/facts/coverage.shtml
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• "We embrace explicitly the proposition that
  effective practice and popular practice
• are very likely two different things."
• - Dr. Douglas Reeves