Tuesday, May 22, 2007
CLOSING THE GAP
Academic achievement
Ohio wants to close the academic achievement gap between black students and other public school students. The goals for that task are:
• Improve low-income student achievement in the middle and high school.
• Increase the graduation rate of minority and low-income students.
• Improve graduation rates in Ohio’s 75 lowest-performing high schools.
• Increase the number of first-in-family and nontraditional students completing science-, technology-, engineering-, math- and medicine-focused curricula.
• Increase the number of minority and low-income graduates obtaining 21st-century employment skills.
• Increase college enrollment for first-in-family students.
Source: State of Ohio