tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post6781126132598060540..comments2024-01-04T05:57:26.735-06:00Comments on Education Policy Blog: Hosted by the Forum on the Future of Public Education: New student-led program aims at dropoutsCraig A. Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18160288758906798678noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-14797100433245465272008-11-19T12:10:00.000-06:002008-11-19T12:10:00.000-06:00You've pretty much captured my concerns/hopes. I ...You've pretty much captured my concerns/hopes. I also, as usual, have questions about how far this can go as a "cooperative" effort between students and administration. It's not like what the students are saying is rocket science, or particularly new.Aaron Schutzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667097977144954236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-77876323324266087342008-11-19T11:50:00.000-06:002008-11-19T11:50:00.000-06:00I have two reactions to this: 1) about time, and 2...I have two reactions to this: 1) about time, and 2) here we go again. The dominant construction of dropping out is something we've inherited from the 1960s, and while I wish I could say I've seen effective interventions that have popped up anew since <I>Creating the Dropout</I> came out 12 years ago, that would be dishonest of me.<BR/><BR/>Yet asking students to help design or make interventions work makes sense. It has some documented successes in health (anti-smoking campaigns and peer-education in sex education), and there is a large literature on peer tutoring (some effective, some not). Since attrition from school is a complex phenomenon, I suspect there may be some things students can do remarkably well in keeping peers in school, but not others. The $64 million question is which is which.Sherman Dornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00491045214079619658noreply@blogger.com