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Despite in schools girls and boys are given equal opportunities, there are some factors that affect female students that lead them to disengage from education. Reasons for the disengagement from education by girls are poverty, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, harmful traditional practices like initiation rites , and gender-based violence .
Student engagement occurs when "students make a psychological investment in learning. They try hard to learn what school offers. They take pride not simply in earning the formal indicators of success (grades and qualifications), but in understanding the material and incorporating or internalizing it in their lives."
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
The event dropout rate estimates the percentage of high school students who left high school between the beginning of one school year and the beginning of the next without earning a high school diploma or its equivalent (e.g., a GED). Event rates can be used to track annual changes in the dropout behavior of students in the U.S. school system. [2]
Students living in lower income communities receive, on average, less investment in their education than students in higher income communities. [37] Slaves were prohibited from attending schools and many were not allowed to learn to read or receive an education. Various minorities were barred from most schools that admitted white students.
Maladjusted cliques "showed the opposite pattern": uninvolved in school performance and organized activities, used alcohol frequently and to excess, and reported multiple symptoms of depression. Disengaged cliques did not encourage engagement "in much of anything, including drinking."
Arts-Expansion - Art is an exploratory adventure that takes students outside of school (e.g., field trips to a museum, concert hall, etc.) Arts-Professional - This approach treats art training as a means for a professional career in the arts, and turning students into artists is the primary goal.
Rowe instituted new curricula in law and homeland security in the hopes of building a more civic-minded student population. [5] In spring of 2015, Rowe also instituted a mentorship program, Seeds of Promise, which brought young adult men from the community into the school to attempt to connect with disengaged students. [6]