Video Tours Made by Students and Their High Schools

what i find funny is that the demographics in these so called top 100 schools show a diversity of less that ten percent

how does this prepare anyone for college, please answer me that. i currently attend shaker heights high school in ohio, once highly ranked in the nation but has fallen over the years due to a growing number of minority students. this growth has made a gap where we have the most national merit scholars in ohio but also one of the largest number of students not passing the ohio graduation test. personally i have no idea how you can rank a high school, because i have learned something from my school that an all white suburban snobatory could never teach you and is something that cannot obviously be explained to people such as yourselves.

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High School graduation Rates

I have been a high school substitute teachers in Texas for six years, and I also have a M.A. degree from Teachers College Columbia University, the top-ranked school of Education in the United States.

Many high school students are just plain bored in high school, especially during the senior year. Others do not see the relevancy of the high school curriculum to their future lives. The challenge is to make high school meaningful.

The temptation is to consider a vocational track, much like some European schools do, sort of a apprentice curriculum. However, the problem here is to make this track flexible enough for the students who suddenly "catch fire" during the school year, become determined to be in an academic track, and want to have the academic preparation to go on to colleges and universities.

Then, too, the vocations of today may become obsolete tomorrow, so how do we determine what vocations will be long-lasting? We have to teach students how to "think,"to prepare for any life choice.

Part of the answer is to have a mix of both academic learning, and vocational, to enable students to make this switch into different tracks. Another solution is to work closely with students, to determine when this boredom threshold is being reached by each, rather than letting this simmer below the surface, resulting in dropouts. Allowing students to take univerity credit for a part of the school year is also good.

We also need to refresh the faculty as well, by giving them higher pay, greater responsibilities, and brighter futures. Teachers who face a bleak economic future, have to work two jobs to "get by," are unable to secure housing in larger cities that is reflective of their professional status, and who are the laughing stock among other adults who can provide better for their families, do not inspire students. What is the value of professional education if the teachers have to contribute to students education through self sacrifice?

We must place a greater value on education.

DOnald H. Schmoldt

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How can I apply for an exchange student?

I'm now a high school student. I found that there are so many top high schools in America and I really want to be an exchange student. I wander if there is such an applization for students from other countries?