Recommendations (cont.)
* Specifically for the K-12 system:
- Investigate successful ramp-up, catch-up programs so the RI public schools can become more adept at helping students who are not performing at grade level.
- Disseminate this Data Story's graph that lays out the map of academic building blocks in order to help students, counselors, administrators and families clearly understand the "distance" they'll have to go as adults, if they miss their K-12 opportunity as teenagers.
- Bring adult-education strategies, courses, and even teachers into the high schools for those students who are already over-aged and functioning at least 2 grade levels below average in any of the 4 GED subjects.
- Students who do not take the SAT or ACT should take the Accuplacer in high school so they know where they stand as to their remedial needs when they get to college or pursue a career pathway.
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