The Equity Challenge

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by Nayumi Otsuru3 views·Updated Apr 7, 2022
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  1. Hi everybody,
  2. my name is Naomi Otsuru and today I would like to introduce our equity challenge.
  3. And so for our group,
  4. we decided to focus on high school graduation rates in Arizona and how
  5. we can create an intervention to help students find their way to success.
  6. So we know that high school graduation is often a
  7. gateway for young individuals to access many different opportunities.
  8. Um,
  9. yeah,
  10. that can support them in reaching various schools
  11. that they have and lead them to success.
  12. And I would say that it's a very important part of our younger years.
  13. It allows us to expand on our knowledge, experience new things and to take
  14. ourselves into the next step of life.
  15. And so currently
  16. We would say, um,
  17. that the average high school graduation rate in Arizona is around 78% and the number
  18. of students who continue to drop out are
  19. consistent throughout these last couple of years,
  20. according to the Arizona, we want organization.
  21. And so there's a variety of different reasons why a student would decide to drop out,
  22. but here are some, just to name a few.
  23. So the first one would be that they are facing some personal issues such as, yeah,
  24. family issues, um, difficulty in, um,
  25. their environment at home or maybe they have to,
  26. um, work to support their siblings or their family and
  27. are finding it difficult to focus on their academics.
  28. Um,
  29. we find that some students feel that they have no purpose
  30. in education and they feel like what they're doing right now is
  31. not worth what they're going through.
  32. And many students also feel that sometimes they have a lack of support overall in.
  33. Um and
  34. yeah,
  35. I have difficulty finding opportunities to reach the goals
  36. that they need in order to reach graduation.
  37. So why is high school graduation such a crucial topic to Arizona's?
  38. Um As I said earlier,
  39. high school graduation can help give students
  40. more opportunities for success in their future.
  41. Um we see that on average, actually,
  42. high school graduates earn $8,000 more annually compared
  43. to those who don't finish high school,
  44. according to the Arizona, we want statistics.
  45. And although we can't solve all these issues at once, we felt as a team that
  46. um as long as we are able to give students the opportunities they need to succeed,
  47. that we can
  48. help more students to finish and to graduate high school.