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An 8 page discussion of one principal’s plans to intercede in the downward spiral of academic failure which is confronting the students of her elementary school. The key to her plan is emphasizing a sense of community at the elementary school and modifying teaching methods to take into account the cultural variability which exists there. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Mural Elementary School suffers from a number of problems ranging from economics to tensions between the races. These problems currently only escalate the closer the elementary student
gets to high school. The unfortunate result is lowered academic performance and an extremely high drop out rate in later classes. As a new principal at Mural Elementary
School I envision interceding in this downward spiral towards academic failure. Many of the problems we are facing in our school
revolve around the racial tensions which exist. A large number of our students are Hispanic but there are also Whites, and Blacks and a small number of other races
and ethnicities as well. The dropout rate for each of these groups is excessively high. It is a rate, however, which is mimicked in schools all over the
country. Carbo (1994) reports an eighteen percent high school drop-out rate for non-Hispanic blacks and a ten percent rate for non-Hispanic
whites. Hispanics, on the other hand, evidence a thirty percent drop-out rate (Carbo, 1994). As has been noted above, there are even internal differences in the drop out
rate among Hispanics in regard to the place of origin. This is true both in regard to gender and to the cultural differences as well.
Those Hispanics who have immigrated to the U.S. have a higher drop-out rate than Hispanics who are born here (Carbo, 1994). There are varying
viewpoints as to why this is the case. One of the most obvious reasons is the difficulties any immigrant faces when being emerged into a new culture make it
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