Why Should We Help Youth?
In the year 2010-2011- Approximately 26 percent of all dropouts occurred in the ninth grade. Cumulatively in year 2010-2011 54% of youth who dropped out had occurred by the ten grade. The South Carolina dropout rate total in year 2010-2011 is 5, 900. In the year 2014-2015 53 percent of youth who dropped out occurred in the tenth grade. South Carolina dropout rate in year 2014-2015 reported 5,644. High School graduation rates for low income students is 73.7 percent.
According to Stephanie Bell-Rose, YES Group Chairperson, Managing Director Goldman Sachs, and Co. and President, Goldman Sachs Foundation, and Thomas Payzant, YES Group Vice-President, Professor of Practice at Harvard University School of Education and Former Superintendent Boston Public Schools, “The Federal School To Work Opportunities Act and other education policies suggest that students learn more and perform better when task and skills demonstrate relevance to their current and future lives . Evaluations studies of high-school level curricula in youth entrepreneurship report that students increase their aspirations, interest in college, reading, and leadership behavior after participation. Six months later, 70 percent of the alumni in a evaluation study cohort were in college, 63 percent had jobs, and one in three ran a small business. Perhaps most critically, the experience of a sense of ownership in their lives were four times higher for alumni of youth-entrepreneurship program than for students who did not take such courses.”
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According to Stephanie Bell-Rose, YES Group Chairperson, Managing Director Goldman Sachs, and Co. and President, Goldman Sachs Foundation, and Thomas Payzant, YES Group Vice-President, Professor of Practice at Harvard University School of Education and Former Superintendent Boston Public Schools, “The Federal School To Work Opportunities Act and other education policies suggest that students learn more and perform better when task and skills demonstrate relevance to their current and future lives . Evaluations studies of high-school level curricula in youth entrepreneurship report that students increase their aspirations, interest in college, reading, and leadership behavior after participation. Six months later, 70 percent of the alumni in a evaluation study cohort were in college, 63 percent had jobs, and one in three ran a small business. Perhaps most critically, the experience of a sense of ownership in their lives were four times higher for alumni of youth-entrepreneurship program than for students who did not take such courses.”
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