Elaine Wynn: Take Holistic Approach to Curbing Dropouts
Head of Communities In Schools, a nonprofit aiming to prevent high school dropouts, details its model.
May 21, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Elaine Wynn is chairman of Communities in Schools, which is dedicated to preventing high school dropouts nationwide.
About 75 percent of high schoolstudents in the United States graduate on time, but those who never get a diploma often earn less, resulting in lost economic activity for the country at large.
How to boost the graduation rate? Take a holistic approach to engaging and empowering students, involving a range of community organizations and resources in addition to schools, says Elaine Wynn, chairman of Communities In Schools, a national nonprofit dedicated to preventing dropouts that operates in more than 3,400 schools.